Abel Coelho was born in 1953 in the city of Inhambane, Mozambique. He is an airline pilot and author of the children's book Viriato: O Chefe do Clã; and the novel Filhos da pátria que os pariu, which tells the story of two children as they struggle to survive Mozambique's civil war.
Elizabeth Lowe is the founding director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has translated both Brazilian and Lusophone writers, including Clarice Lispector, Euclides da Cunha, Machado de Assis, Paula Parisot, Antônio Lobo Antunes, and João de Melo. Her translation of J.P. Cuenca's The Only Happy Ending for a Love Story is an Accident (Tagus Press 2013) was on the long list for the 2015 IMPAC award. She is professor of Translation Studies at the New York University School of Professional Studies.
