José Eduardo Agualusa is one of the leading literary voices in Angola and the Portuguese language today. His books have been translated into over twenty languages, several of them into English. He has received literary grants from the Centro Nacional da Cultura, the Fundação do Oriente, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. Agualusa has also written four plays:
W generation,
O monólogo,
Chovem amores na Rua do Matador, and
A Caixa Preta, the last two with Mia Couto.
Daniel Hahn is the translator of Agualusa’s award-winning novels Creole and The Book of Chameleons, as well as My Father’s Wives.
L. J. Ganser is a multiple Audie Award–winning narrator with over six hundred titles recorded to date. Prized for versatility, his work ranges from preschool books to crime noir thrillers, from astronomical adventures in both science and science fiction, to Arctic Circle high school basketball stories. He lives in New York City with his family and dog, Mars.