The Girl in the Photograph

About Lygia Fagundes TellesLygia FagundesTellesLygia Telles

Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923 ) was born in Sao Paulo Brazil and is one of the most respected authors in Brazilian literature. In 2005 she won the Cam es Prize the greatest literary award in the Portuguese-speaking world and she is one of only three female members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Margaret A. Neves has translated work by Jorge Amado Antonio Torres Moacyr Scliar and Edgard T. Ribeiro. Elizabeth Lowe associate director and associate scholar in the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida is the author of The City in Brazilian Literature. She has translated works by Machado de Assis Clarice Lispector and Antonio Lobo Antunes. Earl E. Fitz is professor of Portuguese Spanish and comparative literature at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Rediscovering the New World: Inter-American Literature in a Comparative Context and has translated works by Clarice Lispector Lima Barreto and Enrique Lefevre.