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Pedro Vainer

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Pedro Vainer

Brazil

Pedro Vainer is an independent academic and literary translator from the Portuguese.

Articles by Pedro Vainer

White and yellow filter on empty blue swimming pool wall without water

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verses of circumstance

In this poem by Brazilian writer and artist Laura Erber, a professor's digressions lead from the realm of metaphor to mid-sentence fumbles and the prosaic concerns of her students' lives.

Translated from Portuguese by Pedro Vainer