Rubens Figueiredo

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Rubens Figueiredo (born 1956 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian writer and translator.

Life and career

Figueiredo graduated in literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, specializing in Russian language and literature.^[1] He has worked for publishing houses in Rio de Janeiro and was a professor of literary translation at PUC-Rio. He has seven books to his credit, several of them awarded with Brazilian literary prizes.^[2]

A prolific translator, he is known for his translations of classics from Russian literature, such as works by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, and Ivan Turgenev,^[3] as well as notable works from English and American literature, by authors such as Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Philip Roth and Susan Sontag.^[1]

Works published

• 1986 - O mistério da samambaia bailarina
• 1987 - Essa maldita farinha
• 1990 - A festa do milênio
• 1994 - O livro dos lobos
• 1998 - As palavras secretas - Jabuti Award^[2]
• 2002- Barco a seco - Jabuti Award^[4]
• 2006 - O livro de Pedro
• 2010 - Passageiro do fim do dia - São Paulo Prize for Literature and Prêmio Portugal Telecom^[5][6]

References

External links

• Rubens Figueiredo entry in the Brazilian Dictionary of Literary Translators (in Portuguese)