Angélica Freitas (1973) is a Brazilian poet.
Freitas has a degree in journalism from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and she worked as a reporter for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. She works as a translator, and co-edits the poetry journal Modo de usar & Co.
Awards
- Programa Petrobras Cultural writing fellowship (2009)
- Prêmio Portugal Telecom (2013)
- Best Translated Book Award for poetry (2016), for the collection Rilke Shake (transl. Hilary Kaplan)
Books
In English
- Rilke Shake (Phoneme Media, 2015, transl. Hilary Kaplan, 124 p.)
- You can find more of her poems here:
- Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018)
In Portuguese
- Rilke Shake (2007)
- um útero é do tamanho de um punho (2013)
- Artichoke (poem, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
- dear angélica (poem, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
- woman in red (poem, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
- grad (poem, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
- woman is a construct (poem, translated by Hilary Kaplan)
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