Glauco Ortolano

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Glauco Ortolano is an American-Brazilian writer, scholar and translator born in 1959 in the city of Americana, Brazil. He is the co-founder of the Utah Translators and Interpreters Association (a Chapter of ATA) and the Asociación Iberoamericana de Escritores. He has taught Brazilian language and literature in several institutions of higher learning including Brigham Young University and The University of Pennsylvania. His most celebrated novel, Domingos Vera Cruz: Memórias de um Antropófago Lisboense no Brasil, has been the subject of several academic studies and publications on modern tendencies in "Antropofagia", a modernist literary movement of twentieth century Brazil. He has also gained recognition for authoring several articles that have appeared in World Literature Today, one of the oldest literary journals of the English language. He has also been accepted as a member of the UBENY, The Brazilian Writers Union of New York.

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