Brazil, Fiction, Non-fiction

Nina Perrotta

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Nina Perrotta is a literary translator from Portuguese and Spanish into English and an editor at Words Without Borders. Her translations have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Common, and La Lucha: Latin American Feminism Today (Charco Press, 2025), among other publications. Her first book-length translation, Clara Alves’s London on My Mind, was published by Scholastic in 2024. She has received a MacDowell fellowship for early 2026 to support her current project: the translation of A pediatra by Brazilian writer Andréa del Fuego.

She has also received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the British Centre for Literary Translation, and the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference. In 2022, she was a finalist for the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize.