Collective residencies / Irene Solà’s Translators Seminar / Olot
RITA CUSTÓDIO
From Wednesday, 15 May 2024 to Sunday, 19 May 2024
Bio
Translator and pedagogue. Degree in Portuguese and French Philology at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. She also completed a postgraduate degree in Pedagogy.
She has translated, in collaboration with Àlex Tarradellas, works by authors such as Mercè Rodoreda, Eva Baltasar, Núria Pradas, Blanca Llum Vidal, Laia Malo, Najat El Hachmi, Irene Vallejo, Jesús Carrasco, Cristina Rivera Garza, Aurora Venturini, Andrea Abreu, Julia Navarro and Santiago Posteguillo. Additionally, she has translated several children's and young adult books. She was co-editor of the magazine Capicua, un pont entre les lletres portugueses i catalanes.
Together with Sion Serra Lopes and Àlex Tarradellas, she has organized and translated Resistir ao Tempo. Antologia de Poesia Catalã (Assírio & Alvim, 2021).
She also works as a reviewer for several publishers and collaborates with the travel publisher Anaya Touring.
Project
She will participate in a meeting of translators who adapt Irene Solà's novel to several different languages.