'Pedro Chagas Freitas is the new literary phenomenon in Portugal.'
TV 7 Dias
Pedro Chagas Freitas is a Portuguese writer, journalist, editor and professional public speaker who has published more than twenty works. He studied linguistics and teaches creative writing.
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with fifty-something books to his name. His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish and French) include fiction and non-fiction for children and adults, from Europe, Africa and the Americas. His work has won him the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, among others, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and the LA Times Book Prize. He is a former chair of the Society of Authors and the Translators Association, and on the board of English PEN.
