Helen Caldwell

American poet

Writer
literary critic
translator
poet

Helen Caldwell (July 9, 1904 – April 12, 1987) was a scholar and Brazilianist from California. Her work focuses on the 19th century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. She completed the first English translation of Dom Casmurro, published in 1953.^[1] Her most famous work is Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His Novels (University of California, Los Angeles, 1970). She also translated 8 of the 12 stories in The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories^[2] (with William L. Grossman for the eponymous novella and three other stories) in 1973.

Works

The Brazilian Othelo of Machado de Assis. University of California Press Berkeley. 1960..
Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His Novels

References

^ K. David Jackson (22 February 1998). "Madness in a Tropical Manner". New York Times. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
^ Assis, Machado de (1963). The Psychiatrist and Other Stories. University of California Press.