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, the Gulbenkian Foundation, and UCL Press. She teaches Portuguese, Literature, and Translation at City Lit and regularly gives translation supervisions at the University of Cambridge. She is a founding member of PinT Book Club and a member of PELTA. She has ten years’ experience of 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 recently completed her practice-based PhD thesis in Creative Writing under the supervision of Professor Dame Marina Warner. She lives in London.