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There are 480 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .
Socorro AcioliSocorro was born in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. She is a journalist, has a master's degree in Brazilian literature and a PhD in Literary Studies. She started her writing career in 2001 and since then has published books of various genres, including children's short stories and YA novels. In 2006, she was selected to take part in a workshop conducted by the Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The author was selected by Garcia Marquez himself based on the synopsis for THE HEAD OF THE SAINT. In 2007, she was a visiting researcher at a university in Germany, and she has also lectured in several other countries such as Portugal, Bolivia and Cape Verde. Socorro is also a translator, essayist and literary theory teacher, and you can follow her at www. socorroacioli. wordpress. com or on Twitter: @AcioliSocorroDaniel Hahn [Translator]Daniel is a British writer, editor and translator. He is the author of a number of works of non-fiction, including the history book THE TOWER MENAGERIE, and one of the editors of THE ULTIMATE BOOK GUIDE, a series of reading guides for children and teenagers, the first volume of which won the Blue Peter Book Award. His translation of THE BOOK OF CHAMELEONS by Jose Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. A former chair of the Translators Association, he is currently national programme director of the British Centre for Literary Translation, and a trustee of the free expression charity English PEN. Follow Daniel on Twitter: @danielhahn02
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