The Head of the Saint

About Socorro Acioli

Socorro AcioliSocorro was born in Fortaleza Ceara Brazil. She is a journalist has a master's degree in Brazilian literature and a PhD in Literary Studies. She started her writing career in 2001 and since then has published books of various genres including children's short stories and YA novels.In 2006 she was selected to take part in a workshop conducted by the Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The author was selected by Garcia Marquez himself based on the synopsis for THE HEAD OF THE SAINT. In 2007 she was a visiting researcher at a university in Germany and she has also lectured in several other countries such as Portugal Bolivia and Cape Verde. Socorro is also a translator essayist and literary theory teacher and you can follow her at www.socorroacioli.wordpress.com or on Twitter: @AcioliSocorroDaniel Hahn TranslatorDaniel is a British writer editor and translator. He is the author of a number of works of non-fiction including the history book THE TOWER MENAGERIE and one of the editors of THE ULTIMATE BOOK GUIDE a series of reading guides for children and teenagers the first volume of which won the Blue Peter Book Award.His translation of THE BOOK OF CHAMELEONS by Jose Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. A former chair of the Translators Association he is currently national programme director of the British Centre for Literary Translation and a trustee of the free expression charity English PEN. Follow Daniel on Twitter: @danielhahn02