A failed architect, Sandra Tamele works as a translator and interpreter in Maputo, Mozambique. She became the first published literary translator in Mozambique with her debut translation of Niccolo; Ammaniti’s acclaimed novel Io non ho paura into Portuguese (Ndjira, 2007). In 2015, after a seven year hiatus from literary projects, she designed and sponsored the annual literary translation competition (LTC); in 2016, she founded the Mozambican Translators and Interpreters Association (ATIM); and in 2018, she established Thirty Zero Nine, a press dedicated to publishing translation that debut September 30th, 2019, with a publication of the collected short stories translated in the previous four editions of the LTC.
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