"There are so many interesting Brazilian writers I’d like to get my hands on. The ' Best Young Brazilian Novelists a few years back identified twenty writers aged under forty, and there’s a lot there still waiting for the to welcome them in. For that collection, I translated short work by two of those writers, and , both of whom deserve full English-language books; there’s another on that list, , who’s bound to be discovered by the English-speaking world before long. And there are a lot of Brazilian writers I have already translated but of whom I’d like to do a lot more — I’ve done one extraordinary short novel by and would love to do a second, I’d like to do more , too, and so many others…"
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Daniel Hahn
(born 26 November 1973) is a British writer, editor, book reviewer, and award-winning translator. As an edItor he shared, with Leonie Flynn and Susan Reuben, the 2004 for Best Book with Facts ('). In 2020 Hahn was elected a and was appointed (OBE).
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