An Infinite Sadness

Antônio Xerxenesky was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1984, and is based in São Paulo. A writer and translator, he is the author of four novels, including F (2014), which was shortlisted for the São Paulo Literature Award and longlisted for the Prix Médicis Etranger in France, and An Infinite Sadness (originally published in 2021), winner of the São Paulo Prize for Literature in 2022 and finalist of the Jabuti Prize (2022). In 2015, Xerxenesky was writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and at the Fondation Jan Michalski in 2017. He holds a PhD in Literary Theory from the University of São Paulo and has translated over 30 books from English and Spanish into Portuguese, including novels by Mario Levrero, Fernanda Melchor, Juan Villoro, George Orwell and Herman Melville.

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with over one hundred books to his name. His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish and French) include fiction from Europe, Africa and the Americas and non-fiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. Recent books include the new Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and translations of Julián Fuks’ Resistance and Occupation . He is a former chair of the Society of Authors and is presently on the board of a number of organisations that deal with literature, literacy, translation and free expression. In 2021 Daniel was made an OBE for his services to literature.