Ana Luisa 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 brought her 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 ... Read moreCosta has been a translator for more than thirty years, translating such novelists as Javier Marias, Jose Saramago, Eca de Queiroz and Benito Perez Galdos, and, more recently, the poets Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ana Luisa Amaral.A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in 2014, she was awarded an OBE for services to literature. Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of Modern and Contemporary World Literatures at the University of Warwick. Show Less