Amilcar Bettega

Amilcar Bettega was born in São Gabriel, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Literature from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and is a writer, translator, and Creative Writing professor.

He is the author of O voo da trapezista (Açorianos Award), Deixe o quarto como está (Açorianos Award and Special Mention of the Casa de las Américas Award, Cuba), Os lados do círculo (Portugal Telecom Award), Barreira (finalist for the São Paulo Award), and Prosa pequena (Minuano Award and Simões Lopes Neto Award).

In 2010, he was a writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, in the United States. His short stories and books have been published in countries including Portugal, Spain, Italy, Colombia, France, the United States, Luxembourg, Sweden, and Bulgaria.

As a translator, he has translated into Portuguese both classical authors, such as Guy de Maupassant (125 Contos de Maupassant, Companhia das Letras, 2009), a work for which he received a residency grant at the Collège des Traducteurs Littéraires in Arles, France, in 2005, and contemporary authors such as Léonor de Récondo (Ponto Cardeal, Dublinense, 2020).

Between 2003 and 2006, he collaborated with the Atelier Européen de la Traduction / Scène Nationale d’Orléans on the translation of several plays.

Between 2009 and 2012, he participated in the implementation of the France-Br Portal, a joint project of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the National Library of Brazil, translating texts by French researchers published on the portal.