Tatiana Faia

Portuguese Guest

Tatiana Faia is the author of six poetry collections: Lugano (2011), Street Theatre (2013), A Room in Athens (2018), Leopard and Abstraction (2020), Hadrian (2022), and Resource and Poverty (2025), as well as a collection of short stories, St. Louis of the Burning Portuguese (2016). In 2019, A Room in Athens received the Portuguese PEN Prize for Poetry. Since 2013, she has been one of the editors of Enfermaria 6 (Ward 6), a Lisbon-based independent publishing project comprising an online magazine and imprint focused on Portuguese and Brazilian poetry. She holds a doctorate in Ancient Greek literature, with a dissertation on characters and decision-making in Homer’s Iliad. She has translated into Portuguese the Homeric Hymns, works by Philo of Alexandria, Herman Melville’s Bartleby, and Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband, Glass, Irony and God, and Eros the Bittersweet. More recently, she completed a Portuguese translation of the collected fragments of Sappho, forthcoming. Her essays have appeared in journals including Relâmpago, Colóquio, and, most recently, Mamute.  Hadrian has been translated into Greek by Tonia Zacharatou (Thraka Editions, 2023) and into Italian by Claudio Russello (Delta 3 Edizioni, 2026). The book was a finalist for the Oceanos Prize, and a Brazilian edition is forthcoming from Editora 34 in 2026.