Ollie Redfern
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Ollie is a British-Brazilian translator and writer who divides his time between the UK and Brazil. He translated Fernando Perdigão’s crime novel The Second Identity (2024) and the English subtitles for Onda Nova (1983), Ícaro Martins and José Antonio Garcia’s film banned by Brazil’s military dictatorship, which has since screened worldwide, including at BFI Flare 2025. He has also translated essays, profiles and interviews for the São Paulo Psychoanalytic Society’s Journal of Psychoanalysis and theatre programmes for Tebas Land, alongside non-fiction for NatureFinance and Neurosymptoms.org. Into Portuguese, he has translated poems by Victoria Grigg and Sarah Jackson.
His short stories have appeared in the literary journals Vallum and Penumbra, and “Walkmen” won a Bronze Award at the Creative Future Literary Awards in 2015. His book reviews have appeared in Transmission Magazine and the Los Angeles Review. He has lived in South Africa, Brazil, Singapore, Hong Kong and Canada, and writes the Substack Picos Gêmeos.