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Zoë Perry

A portrait of Zoë Perry, a translator of Portuguese.
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Zoë Perry

Zoë Perry is a Canadian-American translator who grew up in rural southeastern Kentucky and is currently based in London. She has translated work by several contemporary Portuguese-language authors, including Rodrigo de Souza Leão, Lourenço Mutarelli, Fernando Bonassi, Alexandre Vidal Porto, and Sérgio Rodrigues. She blogs about untranslated Brazilian books at gringareads.com. In 2015, Zoe was translator-in-residence at the Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP) in Brazil, and was awarded a PEN/Heim grant for her translation of Veronica Stigger’s Opisanie Swiata.

Articles by Zoë Perry

The Time Left
By Carlos Henrique Schroeder
Work is too ambiguous a word. Does life work? No, it always wrecks.
Translated from Portuguese by Zoë Perry
from “All Dogs are Blue”
By Rodrigo de Souza Leão
I’ll either leave here dead—or something worse.
Translated from Portuguese by Zoë Perry
from “O Cheiro do Ralo”
By Lourenço Mutarelli
I thought how I could spend a week just looking at her behind
Translated from Portuguese by Zoë Perry