Join us on Sunday 15th at 17.00pm on Zoom where we will be talking to translator Daniel Hahn, and author Julian Fuks all about their work. We will be asking Daniel and Julian all about their work, what inspired Julian to write his books, how Julian’s novel came to be translated by Daniel, and much more.

There will be time reserved for Q&A at the end of the event.

About Julian~

Julián Fuks was born in São Paulo in 1981 and is the son of Argentinian parents. As an author whose work has garnered several top international literary prizes, Julián Fuks has gained recognition as one of Brazil’s most outstanding young writers. He has worked as a reporter for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and as a reviewer for the magazine Cult. Fuks is the author of Histórias de literatura e cegueira (2007) and Procura do romance (2011), both shortlisted for the Oceanos Award as well as for the Jabuti Award. During 2017, Julián Fuks worked alongside Mia Couto as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Considered by Fuks to be his most important work to date, Resistance was the winner of the Jabuti Award for Book of the Year (2016), the Oceanos Prize (2016), the José Saramago Literary Prize (2017) and the Anna Seghers Prize (2018). Occupation is a kind of sequel to Resistance and is thus his second book to appear in English.

About Daniel~

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with some fifty books to his name. His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish and French) include fiction from Europe, Africa and the Americas and non-fiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. His work has won him the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, among others. Recent books include the new Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and a co-translation of a Guatemalan novel. He is a former chair of the Society of Authors (the UK's writers' union) and on the board of a number of organisations that deal with literature, literacy, translation and free expression.

About the book~

Resistance- In the terrifying atmosphere of late 1970s Buenos Aires, a young militant couple engaged in the resistance against the military regime adopt a child. Amid the ever-growing oppression, the couple and their baby flee to Brazil, believing it to be a more tranquil country in which to raise a family and pursue their lives.