Elizabeth Bishop rediscovered ...at Berkeley Book Festival in the context of Brazil!
Katrina Dodsen, who just won the PEN Translation Prize for the short stories of Clarice Lispecter, has also completed her dissertation on Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil. Simultaneously, a book has been published by UVA by Bethany Hicok, drawing on archival sources of unpublished travel writings and exploring the impact of Brazil on Bishop's life and art.in Elizabeth Bishop's Brazil . Bishop arrived in Brazil at age 40 and remained for nearly two decades. It details her life with Brazilian aristocrat and architect Lota de Macedo Soares and with Brazil and discusses little known translationsof famous poets such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade(1902-1987) which film we saw in this series for the Auteur, Author part of the Berkeley Book Festival. "D"Amor Natural" by Heddy Honigmann(Netherlands/Brazil) (1996) was discussed by Katrina Dodson, Idra NoveyDebut novel, Ways to Disappear is about a translator's search for a missing Brazilian author) and Berkeley ...