Helen Caldwell

Helen Caldwell is a scholar and Brazilianist from California. Her work focuses on the 19th century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. She completed the first English translation of Dom Casmurro, published in 1953.[1] Her most famous work is Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His Novels (University of California, Los Angeles, 1970). She also translated of 8 the 12 stories in The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories[2] (with William L. Grossman for the eponymous novella and three other stories) in 1973.

References

  1. ↑ K. David Jackson (22 February 1998). "Madness in a Tropical Manner". New York Times. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
  2. ↑ Table of contents at Google Books


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