Rosa Freire d'Aguiar
Rosa Freire d'Aguiar (born August 28, 1948 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian journalist and currently the most important translator of literary works into Brazilian Portuguese .
She studied at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro . As a journalist, she interviewed Georges Simenon , Roland Barthes , Rudolf Nurejev , Eugène Ionesco , Marc Chagall and Salvador Dali . From 1987 to 2001 she lived in Paris .
So far she has translated around 60 works from French, Italian and Spanish, since 1986 mainly for the Companhia das Letras publishing house . She also adapted works from European Portuguese to Brazilian Portuguese. She received a Prêmio Jabuti in 2009 for her translation of Muriel Barbery 's A elegância do ouriço ( The Elegance of the Hedgehog ) .
Since 1978 she was married to Celso Furtado , whose Obra autobiográfica she published in 1997 in three volumes.
Web links
- biography
- Rosa Freire d'Aguiar in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | d'Aguiar, Rosa Freire |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio de Janeiro |