Angélica Freitas (born April 8, 1973) is a Brazilian poet and translator.

Biography

Freitas was born in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, in 1973. She graduated in

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(UFRGS), living for some time in

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. She moved later to

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, working as repórter for the newspaper

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and magazine ''Informática Hoje''. She left Brazil in 2006, having lived temporarily in the Netherlands,

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and

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. Freitas came back to her birthplace Pelotas, where she currently lives.

Literature

Angélica Freitas had her poems published for the first time in an anthology of Brazilian poetry published in Argentina, titled ''Cuatro poetas recientes del Brasil'' (

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: Black & Vermelho, 2006), organized and translated by Argentine poet Cristian De Nápoli. On that same year, she participated of public readings of her poems in São Paulo, at

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, and at the Buenos Aires Latin American Poetry Festival. Her first book of poems was ''Rilke Shake'' (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2007). Freitas's poetry was published in France, Germany, Mexico, Spain and the United States. Her poems were published at several print and digital magazines like Inimigo Rumor (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), ''Diário de Poesía'' (Buenos Aires/Rosário, Argentina), ''águas furtadas'' (Lisbon, Portugal)
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(New York City, United States). In 2012 her book ''um útero é do tamanho de um punho'' was a finalist on 2013 Prêmio

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. The English edition of ''Rilke Shake'' (translated by Hillary Kaplan) won the

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for poetry in 2016.

Works

Poetry

* ''Rilke Shake'' (São Paulo:

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, 2007) * ''um útero é do tamanho de um punho'' (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2013) * ''Canções de atormentar'' (São Paulo:

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, 2020)

As editor

* ''Modo de Usar & Co. magazine'' (Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Berinjela, 2007) * ''Modo de Usar & Co. 2'' magazine(Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Berinjela, 2009)

In anthology

* ''Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology'' (University of Georgia Press, 2018) - United States of America * ''Otra línea de fuego: quince poetas brasileñas ultracontemporaneas''. Org. Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda. (Diputación Provincial de Málaga, 2009) - Spain * ''VERSSchmuggel / Contrabando de Versos'' (Berlin: Das Wunderhorn / São Paulo: Editora 34, 2009) - Germany * ''El libro de los gatos'' (Buenos Aires: Bajo la Luna, 2009) - Argentina * ''A Poesia Andando. 13 poetas do Brasil'' (Lisboa: Cotovia, 2008) - Portugal * ''Skräp-poesi: antología bilingüe en español y sueco'' (Malmö: ed. POESIA con C, 2008) - Sweden * ''Natiunea Poetilor'' (Suceava: ed. Musatini, 2008) - Romania * ''Poesía-añicos y sonares híbridos. Doce poetas latinoamericanos'' (Berlin: SuKulTur, 2007) - Germany * ''Caos Portátil'' (Ciudad de México: ed. El Billar de Lucrecia, 2007) - México * ''Cuatro Poetas Recientes del Brasil'' (Buenos Aires: Black & Vermelho, 2006) - Argentina - * ''Poemas no ônibus'' (Porto Alegre: Secretaria Municipal da Cultura, 2002) - Brasil -

References

External links

Página pessoal da autora com poemas orais no Myspace

Artigo sobre a poeta no jornal ''Folha de S. Paulo''

Ensaio da crítica norte-americana Hilary Kaplan sobre ''Rilke Shake''
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