Simone Homem de Mello

Simone Homem de Mello is a poet and translator. Her poems are collected in Périplos (São Paulo, 2005), Extravio Marinho (São Paulo, 2010), and Terminal, à escrita (São Paulo, 2015), as well as in anthologies of Brazilian contemporary poetry. She has written libretti for operas, including Orpheus Kristall (composed by Manfred Stahnke, Munich, 2002), Keine Stille außer der des Windes (composed by Sidney Corbett, Bremen, 2007) and UBU—Eine musikalische Groteske (composed by Sidney Corbett, Gelsenkirchen, 2012). She has translated into Portuguese novels by Peter Handke and several modern and contemporary German poets (including Arno Holz, Thomas Kling, Ulf Stolterfoht, and Barbara Köhler). She has also translated Augusto de Campos’s poems into German (Augusto de Campos: Poesie, 2019). Mello studied German literature at the University of São Paulo and at the University of Cologne. Her PhD thesis in translation studies the University of Santa Catarina is about the translation of avant-garde poetry. From 2012 to 2014, she coordinated the Centro de Referência Haroldo de Campos (Casa das Rosas, São Paulo). Since 2011 she has directed the Center for Literary Translation Studies at the museum Casa Guilherme de Almeida in São Paulo.