When we write, we create a world

João Pedro Aido interviews Paulo Faria

Abstract

"What thread of Ariadne unites, for example, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, Jack Kerouac, John Banville, Yukio Mishima, William Boyd, Arthur Conan Doyle, Philip K. Dick or Flannery O'Conner , Jane Austen, Iris Murdoch, Emily Brontë?
All of these authors, and many more, have seen one or more of their works translated by Paulo Faria, a writer and literary translator who was born in 1967, in Lisbon, and graduated in Biology by chance. "