Ancient Tillage

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Raduan Nassar was born in 1935, in Pindorama, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Like his Lebanese immigrant family, the author’s life has been bound in agriculture and writing. Ancient Tillage (1975) and A Cup of Rage (1978), a novella, are his two major literary works. He was raised mainly in small rural towns, then went on to study Law at the University of São Paulo. He also worked as a journalist and editor for the newspaper Jornal do Bairro, jointly founded with his brothers. Although an acclaimed literary author, since 1985 Raduan Nassar has led a private existence dedicated to farming and livestock production. He retired to a smaller farm in 2011, having donated his entire commercial property to the agricultural departments of the Federal University of São Carlos for the creation of a new campus.

Karen C. Sherwood Sotelino, born in San Francisco, California, has translated novels, short stories and technical texts from Portuguese into English. She also taught translation at Associação Alumni (São Paulo, Brazil) and Portuguese language and translation at Stanford University, where she was Visiting Scholar in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent translation is Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis’s novel Resurrection.

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