Among the international agencies represented by LVB & Co on the Brazilian translated literature market, many manage several catalogs with hundreds of titles each, which are joined by the vast catalogs of some American and European publishing houses. This means that, at any given time, our agency is involved with thousands of books at once. It’s literature as the most mysterious of Arts — as infinite, plentiful, and challenging as the universe itself.

Thanks to its partnership with 12 first-tier international agencies, each acting on its own language territory, LVB & Co has closed hundreds of deals for translating Brazilian works into English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Hebrew. LVB & Co has independently earned contracts for translating Brazilian books into German and adapting them to European Portuguese. Through LVB’s agents painstaking work, Brazilian books have been translated into remote languages such as Lithuanian, Galician, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Albanian.

Luciana’s inspiration and support as she started her literary agency was faithful Nelson Villas Boas, the Wheaten Terrier dog shown here in Christmas 2023 on Miguel’s lap. About to turn 15, equal to a 90-year-old in human years, Nelson has been preparing for retirement since the pandemic, looking to be completely off his duties and start enjoying life in 2024; as always, he will be leaving everything tidy behind him, of course. Today, LVB & Co relies on the precious cooperation of Yasmin Ribeiro, our assistant, and Emily Torres, as our admin intern.