Patricia Couto

Patricia Couto, member of CEC, was born in the Netherlands, studied Germanic Philology in Coimbra (FLUC 1975) and holds a MA in Comparative Literature (FLUL 1996). She has worked at Portuguese schools and taught Dutch Language and Culture at FLUL. She has translated authors such as Jan Slauerhoff, Cees Nooteboom, Gerrit Komrij and Etty Hillesum into Portuguese. Currently, she is writing her PhD thesis on Glazemaker’s seventeenth century translation of Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinaçam.