2024 Festival:
October 21–27

João Reis

(PORTUGAL)

JOÃO REIS is a Portuguese writer and a literary translator of Scandinavian languages. He studied philosophy and has lived in Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Reis’s work has been compared to that of Hamsun and Kafka. He is both the author and translator of The Translator’s Bride. (PORTUGAL)

Presented thanks to the support of the Consulate General of Portugal in Vancouver and SFU’s Department of World Languages and Literatures.