Call Number:

C1552

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 3 boxes
• 1.25 linear feet

Language:

Portuguese

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Title of Collection, Box and Folder Number; Manuscripts Division, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1968-2003 (inclusive)

Creator:

Colchie, Thomas.

Abstract:

Thomas Colchie (Princeton University alumnus, Class of 1964), is a translator, editor, and literary agent with a specialization in Latin America. His papers consists of correspondence from Jorge Amado, António Lobo Antunes, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Oswaldo França Júnior, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Manuel Puig, Murilo Rubião, Ernesto Sábato, José Saramago, Moacyr Scliar, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, José Luandino Vieira, Néstor Almendros, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Elizabeth Bishop, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Joaquim Cardozo, Philip Roth, and Alan Warner.

Thomas Colchie (Princeton University alumnus, Class of 1964), is a translator, editor, and literary agent (The Colchie Agency) with a specialization in Latin America. He is the editor of A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes and A Whistler in the Nightworld both of which feature short stories of Latin American Boom and post-Boom writers. Through The Colchie Agency he represented Reynaldo Arenas' and Manuel Puig. He wrote an introduction to Arenas' Hallucinations, or, the ill-fated peregrinations of Fray Servando. His translations include Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman and, together with Elizabeth Bishop, Gregory Rabassa, and Mark Strand translated Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Travelling in the Family. He was a personal friend of Jorge Amado and wrote an article in the Washington Post titled, "The life of a Latin American literary giant parallels the story of a tumultuous century" shortly after Amado's death in 2001.

Thomas Colchie's papers consist of Colchie's personal and professional correspondence with authors including Jorge Amado, António Lobo Antunes, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Oswaldo França Júnior, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Manuel Puig, Murilo Rubião, Ernesto Sábato, José Saramago, Moacyr Scliar, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, José Luandino Vieira, Néstor Almendros, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Elizabeth Bishop, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Joaquim Cardozo, Philip Roth, and Alan Warner.

Organized into the following series: Series 1: Correspondence.