Alexis Levitin is author of 32 books of translations, including eleven collections of poems by Portugal's foremost living poet, Eugenio de Andrade. He has published translations in approximately 25 anthologies and 200 literary journals such as Grand Street, Partisan Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner. His numerous prizes, awards, and grants include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Columbia University Translation Center.
Salgado Maranhao is the author of 20 books. His collected poems, The Color of the Word, won Brazil's highest award, the Premio de Poesia da Academia Brasileira de Letras, for the year 2011. An earlier collection, Mural of Winds, won the prestigious Premio Jabuti in 1999. In addition to eight books of poetry, including The Snake's Fists, The Kiss of the Beast, and the recent Tiger's Fur, he has written song lyrics and made recordings with some of Brazil's leading jazz and pop musicians.
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