Helen Caldwell

Helen Caldwell is 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.

Helen Caldwell
Born(1904-07-09)July 9, 1904
DiedApril 12, 1987(1987-04-12) (aged 82)
NationalityUSA
OccupationWriter, literary critic, translator, poet.

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

References
  1. K. David Jackson (22 February 1998). "Madness in a Tropical Manner". New York Times. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
  2. Table of contents at Google Books


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