Johnny Lorenz

Johnny Lorenz, son of Brazilian immigrants to the United States, was born in 1972. He received his doctorate in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, and he is an associate professor at Montclair State University. In 2013, he was a finalist for Best Translated Book for his translation of A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector (New Directions). His book of original poems, Education by Windows, was published in 2018 by Poets & Traitors Press; it includes his translations of the poet Mario Quintana, for which he received a Fulbright grant. He has published articles on Brazilian literature in journals such as Luso-Brazilian Review and Modern Fiction Studies. He is also the translator of Lispector's The Besieged City (New Directions).

Johnny Lorenz

Books by Johnny Lorenz

A Breath of Life
Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser
Paperback, 2012
A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.
The Besieged City
Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Johnny Lorenz
Hardback, 2019
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at last
A Breath of Life
Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser
E Book, 2012
A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.
The Besieged City
Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Johnny Lorenz
E Book, 2019
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at last
The Besieged City
Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Johnny Lorenz
Paperback, 2024
Now in paperback, The Besieged City—Clarice Lispector’s electrifying third novel—tells of a shallow girl becoming a desirable but highly materialistic woman in a rough-and-ready town