Tatiana Faia

Tatiana Faia

Tatiana Faia is the author of five books of poems: Lugano (2011); Street Theatre (2013); A Room in Athens (2018); Leopard and Abstraction (2020); Hadrian (2022) and a book of short stories, St. Louis of the Burning Portuguese (2016). In 2019, A Room in Athens was awarded the Portuguese PEN Prize for Poetry. Since 2013, she has been one of the editors of the Lisbon-based independent publishing project ‘Enfermaria 6’ (‘Ward 6’). She holds a doctorate in Ancient Greek literature with a thesis about characters and decisions in Homer’s Iliad. She has translated the Homeric Hymns, Philo of Alexandria, Herman Melville and Anne Carson into Portuguese. Hadrian was translated into Greek by Tonia Tzirita Zacharatou and was shortlisted for the Brazilian Oceanos prize in 2023. She has also authored an opera libretto in collaboration with the composer João Ricardo, Echo/ Archipelago, which premiered in Lisbon in 2021. She has lived in Oxford for over a decade.