ABOUT ME

Christina Baum is a Brazilian-British literary translator, author, and teacher. Her translations from English into Portuguese include Pulse by Julian Barnes, Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala, and We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She has also translated from Portuguese into English for the BBC, Channel 4, the BFI, The Guardian, the Instituto Moreira Salles and the Gulbenkian Foundation. She teaches Portuguese, Literature, and Translation at City Lit and regularly gives translation seminars at the University of Cambridge. She is a founding member of PinT Book Club and a member of PELTA. She has ten years’ experience running international literary festivals (2003 – 2013): Flip — Paraty International Literary Festival in Brazil; Palfest — Palestine Festival of Literature; the 2010 London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre; and Pauliceia Literária — São Paulo International Literary Festival.  A Faber Academy alumna, she holds a BA and an MFA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London, where she has recently completed her practice-based PhD thesis in Creative Writing. She lives in London.