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Kim M. Hastings

Contributor

Kim M. Hastings

Brazil

Kim M. Hastings was raised overseas and lived for several years in São Paulo. She studied Brazilian language and literature at Brown University and has a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale. For the past fifteen years, she has been a freelance editor and translator, working with academic presses and commercial publishers. Her translations include fiction by Rubem Fonseca, Rachel Jardim, Adriana Lisboa, and Edgard Telles Ribeiro.

Articles by Kim M. Hastings

Señor Capitán

By Edgard Telles Ribeiro

The fishing boat could hold thirty passengers out on the deck.

Translated from Portuguese by Kim M. Hastings

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We Have to Love Brazil: A FLIP Diary

By Kim M. Hastings & Lúcia Bettencourt

Day One: Wednesday, July 4Precisamos adorar o Brasil!We have to love Brazil!Anticipation is running high as FLIP (the Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty, or International Literary Festival of Paraty)…

Seizing Cervantes

By Antônio Xerxenesky

The plan involved gradually rewriting Don Quixote over the years, so that no one would notice and collective memories would forget the details. Implausible?

Translated from Portuguese by Kim M. Hastings

Marcel Proust’s Last Three Days

By Lúcia Bettencourt

And you need to promise me one thing: don’t let them give me any injections.

Translated from Portuguese by Kim M. Hastings

Flipping Out

By Kim M. Hastings

Oswald de Andrade would have loved FLIP. So confirmed Antonio Candido, Brazil’s most revered literary critic, in his opening talk at the ninth annual International Literary Festival in Parati, more…

Sergeant Garcia

By Caio Fernando Abreu

The men stirred, restless. Romans, they wanted blood. The whip, the boot, the snap.

Translated from Portuguese by Kim M. Hastings

From the Translator: Kim M. Hastings on Translating “Borges’s Secretary”

By Kim M. Hastings

In this dispatch, Portuguese translator Kim M. Hastings weighs in on her translation of Lúcia Bettencourt's story “Borges's Secretary” from the October 2010 issue of the magazine.…

Borges’s Secretary

By Lúcia Bettencourt

I can’t, nor do I want to, unmask her, because in doing so I would destroy myself.

Translated from Portuguese by Kim M. Hastings