We are the cultural arm of AILD UK (International Association of Luso Descendants - UK).
Our aim is to promote and share the culture from Portuguese-language countries all around the world.
Gabriela Ruivo
Portuguese author living in the UK since 2004, winner of the LeYa prize, PEN Clube Português award for debut novels and European Union Prize for Literature. Currently based in Scotland, she manages Miúda Books, an online bookshop specialising in children’s literature written in Portuguese, and is a member of the Women Writer's Club in Portugal.
Christina Baum
Brazilian-British literary translator, author and tutor based in London. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London, and teaches at City Lit and the University of Cambridge. Her published translations include works by Julian Barnes, Uzodinma Iweala and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She has also worked on translation projects for the BBC, the British Council and the Gulbenkian Foundation, and has ten years’ experience organising international literary festivals in the UK, Brazil and the Middle East.
Aline Littlejohn
Brazilian-born Portuguese-English interpreter and translator living in London since 1981. After a 10-year career in publishing, she retrained as an interpreter and holds the Diploma of Public Service Interpreting (Law). She has been an active participant of the Brazilian Translation Club (BTC) at UCL and was one of the contributing translators in the March 2021 special edition of Qorpus Magazine featuring translated short stories from the BTC.
Sónia Silva
Portuguese graphic designer and photographer living in the UK. She has contributed to a number of solo exhibitions in the UK and, recently, to the exhibition ”Fotografar Palavras” at the Museu da Imagem em Movimento in Leiria, Portugal. She also works as a creative designer at Minimalista, a Portuguese independent publisher.
Francisco Vilhena
Editor and translator, he is a contributing editor at the White Review and serves on the advisory board of The Poetry Translation Centre. His co-translation of Adelaide Ivánova’s the hammer and other poems , alongside with Rachel Long, was shortlisted for the 2020 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. His work can be found in Modern Poetry in Translation, Asymptote, Granta and elsewhere.
Maria Hill
English-Portuguese conference interpreter with experience in corporate and institutional communication. She works in both onsite and remote settings, providing simultaneous and consecutive interpreting services for meetings, audits, training sessions, workshops and conferences.
Beatriz Velloso
Brazilian interpreter and translator living in São Paulo. She is a member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) and the Professional Association of Conference Interpreters (APIC). She has simultaneously translated authors such as Margaret Atwood, Amos Oz, Nadine Gordimer, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Saidiya Hartman, among others. She has a degree in Journalism and also in Conference Interpreting, both from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo.
Marina Waltenberg
Brazilian translator and interpreter based in Germany. She is accredited with the European Institutions and regularly interprets in the Portuguese booth at the European Commission and the European Parliament. She is also a faculty member at Heidelberg University, where she teaches simultaneous and consecutive interpreting from English and German into Portuguese. Marina holds degrees in Marketing, Portuguese and French Language and Literature, as well as a master’s degree in Conference Interpreting.
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Lucia Clark
Student of French and Portuguese at the University of Oxford, graduating this year (2024). She taught English in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for six months.
