Ismar Tirelli Neto

Brazil

Poet, fiction-writer and translator

Artist in residence from 20 April to 9 July 2024

Ismar Tirelli Neto is a Brazilian poet, occasional fiction-writer and translator. He has been publishing steadily since 2008. His more recent output tends to center on a critique of the "confessional", a basic distrust of language's communicative powers that does not fail to take into account the oppressed subject's overpowering need to communicate. His latest book, due to be released on early April, is called “Can the homosexual whistle?".     

In collaboration with Pro Helvetia, The Swiss Arts Council