Alison Entrekin is an award‑winning literary translator from the Portuguese. She has translated some of Brazil’s most beloved and iconic works of literature into English, including Clarice Lispector’s debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Paulo Lins’s favela classic City of God and José Mauro de Vasconcelos’s My Sweet Orange Tree, among others. Her new translation of João Guimarães Rosa’s modernist masterpiece Grande Sertão: Veredas will be published as Vastlands: The Crossing in January 2027 by Simon & Schuster (US/Canada) and Bloomsbury Publishing (UK/ANZ).