Daniel Galera
From 1 March to 31 March 2022

Born in 1979, the Brazilian writer and translator Daniel Galera lives and works in Porto Alegre. He has published five novels, most notably Barba Ensopada de Sangue (Companhia das Letras, 2012), the winner of the São Paulo Prize for Novels in 2012 and widely translated (the English translation, Blood-Drenched Beard, was brought out by Penguin Books in 2014). His most recent novel, Meia-Noite e Vinte(Companhia das Letras, 2016), is available in English as Twenty After Midnight (Penguin Books, 2020). He has also translated into Portuguese fiction by a variety of major English-language authors, including David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, Irvine Welsh, and John Cheever.