Emanuel Brasil
EMANUEL BRASIL, born in Rio de Janeiro, is a novelist and teacher of modern dance. He was a staff member of the translation service of the United Nations and coeditor with Elizabeth Bishop of An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry (Wesleyan, 1972). Brasil is also the author of a novel, Little Sissy (Pedra Fantasma), and History of Brazil (Historia de Brasil 1954-1964). His home is in Rio de Janeiro.