José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920-84) was a Brazilian writer, born to an indigenous mother and a Portuguese father, who worked as a sparring partner for boxers, as a labourer on a banana farm, and a fisherman before he started writing at the age of 22. He is most famous for his autobiographical novel
My Sweet Orange Tree, which tells the story of his own childhood in Rio de Janeiro.
Alison Entrekin is an acclaimed translator from Portuguese, whose translations include
Budapest by Chico Buarque, which was shortlisted for the
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.