About Mariana Salomao Carrara Books
MARIANA SALOMÃO CARRARA was born in 1986 in São Paulo, and works in the city as a public defender. She is the author of six novels, including Não fossem as sílabas do sábado (Were Not for the Saturday's Syllables), which won the São Paulo Prize for Literature in 2023. JULIA SANCHES is a translator of Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan and French from São Paulo, Brazil. She has translated acclaimed contemporary authors such as Eva Baltasar, Andrea Abreu, and Mariana Oliver. ALISON ENTREKIN is an award-winning Australian literary translator from the Portuguese. She has translated many of Brazil's most beloved and iconic literary works, including Clarice Lispector's 1943 debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, the favela classic City of God by Paulo Lins and José Mauro de Vasconcelos's My Sweet Orange Tree.
