Levitin, Alexis: - Alexis Levitin has published fifty books of translations, including Clarice Lispector's Soulstorm and Eugenio de Andrade's Forbidden Words, both from New Directions. His most recent translations of poetry include: from Brazil, five volumes by Salgado Maranhão and two collections by Astrid Cabral; from Portugal, Rosa Alice Branco's Cattle of the Lord and Eugenio de Andrade's Furrows of Thirst, and from Ecuador, Carmen Vascones' Outrage. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation awards and has held Fulbright positions in Portugal, Brazil, and Ecuador. He is Leonor Scliar-Cabral's official translator into English.