February 13, 2024
Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Jr will be in residence in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for the first two weeks of March, 2024, as part of the Spanish and Portuguese department’s yearly Brazilian Writer-in-Residence program. He will be giving readings, attending classes and holding office hours as well as working on his own writing. For inquiries please contact Prof. Nathaniel Wolfson (nwolfson@berkeley.edu). Please see the flyer below for two events with Itamar Vieira Jr and translator Johnny Lorenz.
Crooked Plow (Torto arado), Itamar Vieira Jr’s first novel, was recently published by Verso Books. It has been translated into twenty-five languages and is one of the most acclaimed and commercially successful Brazilian novels in recent years. Itamar Vieira Jr is a novelist and geographer (PhD in Ethnic and Africana Studies from the Federal University of Bahia). His research and much of his fiction centers in the Recôncavo area of Bahia, considered the center of Afro-Brazilian culture and history.
