Alexis levitan biography
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Alexis Levitin is an American award-winning translator of poetry and prose from Spanish and Portuguese to English....
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Alexis Levitin has published 48 books in translation, mostly poetry from Portugal, Brazil, and Ecuador.
In addition to twelve books by Portugal's Eugénio de Andrade and five books by Brazil's Salgado Maranhão, his work includes Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm (from New Directions) and Rosa Alice Branco's Cattle of the Lord (from Milkweed Editions).
He is a recipient of two NEA translation fellowships and has served as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Universities of Oporto and Coimbra, Portugal, The Catholic University in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil.
In addition, he has held translation residencies at the Banff Center, Canada, The European Translators Collegium in Straelen, Germany (twice), and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Recent books include Outrage by Ecuador’s Carmen Váscones (White Dwarf Editions, 2018), Pal&