Margarida Vale de Gato

She is a poet, translator, lecturer and researcher in North American Studies and Literary Translation at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. As a translator, she has rendered into Portuguese various English and French texts by authors including Henri Michaux, Nathalie Sarraute, René Char, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens and Alice Munro, among others. Her academic work focuses on Edgar Allan Poe, ecopoetics and collaborative pedagogy in literary translation. As an author, she has published the poetry books Lançamento (Douda Correria, 2016), Atirar para o Torto (Tinta da china, 2021), and Mulher ao Mar, an ongoing project whose latest edition is Mulher ao Mar e Corsárias (Mariposa Azual, 2023). In German, she has published Die nicht reklamierten Reste (translated by Odile Kennel). Her work has also been translated into Dutch, Spanish, English, French, Italian, Czech, Slovenian and Croatian.