The Art of Being a Tiger

ANA LUÍSA AMARAL published her first volume of poetry in 1990 and has since published more than twenty volumes (among poetry, fiction, theatre and children's books). Translated into several languages, her work has been awarded many prizes in Portugal and abroad. She is also a translator, notably of the poetry of John Updike, Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare. MARGARET JULL COSTA has been a literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese for over thirty years and has translated works by novelists such as Eça de Queiroz, José Saramago, Javier Marías, and Bernardo Atxaga, as well as poets such as Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ana Luísa Amaral. She has won various prizes, most recently the 2017 Best Translated Book Award for her co-translation with Robin Patterson of the Brazilian novelist Lúcio Cardoso's Chronicle of the Murdered House. ANNA M. KLOBUCKA is Professor of Portuguese and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.