Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis (1839 1908), whose full name isJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis, is widely considered one of the most innovative Latin American authors and is best known for his two masterpiece novels, Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas and Dom Casmurro . He was also the founding president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1896), a position he held throughout the rest of his life. Karen Sherwood Sotelino has translated novels, short stories, and technical texts from Portuguese into English....See more

Machado de Assis (1839 1908), whose full name isJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis, is widely considered one of the most innovative Latin American authors and is best known for his two masterpiece novels, Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas and Dom Casmurro . He was also the founding president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1896), a position he held throughout the rest of his life. Karen Sherwood Sotelino has translated novels, short stories, and technical texts from Portuguese into English. Recently, she has taught Portuguese language and translation at Stanford University, where she is visiting scholar in the department of Iberian and Latin American cultures." See less