Katrina Dodson

Katrina Dodson’s translation of The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector was awarded the PEN Translation Prize, the American Translators Association Lewis Galantière Award, and a Northern California Book Award. She translated Mário de Andrade’s 1928 Brazilian modernist classic, Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s, Triple Canopy and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and is an affiliated scholar of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University. A San Francisco native, she now lives in Brooklyn and teaches translation at Columbia University.

Katrina Dodson

Katrina Dodson’s translation of The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector was awarded the PEN Translation Prize, the American Translators Association Lewis Galantière Award, and a Northern California Book Award. She translated Mário de Andrade’s 1928 Brazilian modernist classic, Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s, Triple Canopy and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and is an affiliated scholar of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University. A San Francisco native, she now lives in Brooklyn and teaches translation at Columbia University.

Books by Katrina Dodson

  • Complete Stories

    Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser

    Paperback, 2018

    One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback—with three just-discovered stories
  • Complete Stories

    Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2018

    One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback—with three just-discovered stories
  • Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character

    Mário de Andrade, Katrina Dodson

    Paperback, 2023

    A brilliant new translation of the Brazilian modernist epic that aims to capture the country’s complex identity
  • Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character

    Mário de Andrade, Katrina Dodson

    E Book

    A brilliant new translation of the Brazilian modernist epic that aims to capture the country’s complex identity
  • Covert Joy: Selected Stories

    Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Rachel Kushner

    E Book, 2025

    From the massive treasure house of her hugely successful Complete Stories, gathered here are the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector’s short fiction