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Nelson Ascher

[Brazil]

1958

Born in São Paulo in 1958, Nelson Ascher majored in Business Administration at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, but never worked in that field. A literary critic for Folha de S. Paulo since 1984, he was the founder and editor of Revista da USP from 1999 to 1994. His books of poetry include Ponta da Lingua (1983) and Sonho da Razão (1993). His most recent book of poetry is Algo de Sol (1996).

Ascher is perhaps best known as a translator. His translations include Vida sem fim (in collaboration with Paulo Leminski) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Folhetim: poemas traduzidos (1987), Canção antes da ceifa—posia húgara moderna (1990), and Quase uma elegia (1995), a selection of Joseph Brodsky’s poetry. He has also published a volume of political and polemical essays mainly about Central and Eastern Europe, dealing with the fall of communism, the Yugoslav civil war, German reunification and the Holocaust: Pomos da Discórdia (1966). His most recent collection of translations is Poesia Alheia, published by Imago press in 1998.

BOOKS OF POETRY:

Ponta da Lingua (São Paulo: privately printed, 1983); O Sonho da Razão [published with Ponta da Ligua] (Rio de Janeiro: Editora 34, 1993); Algo de Sol (Rio de Janeiro: Editora 34, 1996).

[Reprinted from The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20 th Century, Volume 3: Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain—20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets.]
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