Discipline: Literature

Myriam Campello

Discipline: Literature
Region: Rio de Janiero, BRAZIL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982, 1985
Myriam Campello is a novelist, short story writer, and translator. Born in Rio de Janeiro, many of her works focus on Brazil. She is the author of six novels, including Cerimónia da Noite (1973), which received the Fernando Chinaglia Prize for debut novels; Sortilegiu (1981); São Sebastião Blues (1993); Como Esquecer – Anotações quase Inglesas (2003). Her short story collections include Sons e outros frutos (1998), which received a grant from the Brazilian national library, and Palavras são para comer (2017). Campello has also translated the works of John Steinbeck, Stephen King, Georges Simenon, Alexandre Dumas, and Virginia Woolf to Portuguese.

Studios

Monday Music

Myriam Campello worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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