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Alison Entrekin



Alison Entrekin is an acclaimed translator from the Portuguese. Her work includes short fiction and poetry for anthologies and literary magazines, in addition to children’s fiction, biographies, and novels, including City of God by Paulo Lins; The Eternal Son by Cristovão Tezza, shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize; and Budapest by Chico Buarque, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She is a three-time finalist in the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize & PEN Medallion.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 10,853 ratings · 1,214 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors
My Sweet Orange Tree
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It's All River: A Novel
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Near to the Wild Heart
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Perfect Days
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Codex 632
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3.61 avg rating — 7,912 ratings — published 2005 — 36 editions
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I'm Still Here
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City of God
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4.09 avg rating — 6,613 ratings — published 1997 — 52 editions
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Budapest
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3.71 avg rating — 6,106 ratings — published 2003 — 47 editions
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The End
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3.83 avg rating — 4,123 ratings — published 2013 — 23 editions
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Blood-Drenched Beard
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