Ivone Castilho Benedetti

Ivone Castilho Benedetti (born 1947) is a Brazilian writer and translator. She was born in São Paulo. Her debut novel Immaculada was nominated for the Sao Paulo Literary Prize. Her other books include Tenho um cavalo alfaraz and Cabo de guerra. She has written a book on verb conjugations in Portuguese.

A prolific translator, she has translated works by Edgar Morin, Enrico Ianniello, Saint-Exupery, Simone de Beauvoir, Roger-Pol Droit, Maylis de Kerangal, Susanna Tamaro, Isabel Allende, Francoise Sagan, Samanta Schweblin, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Francois Mauriac, Jean Flori, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Dalarun, Antoine Sénanque, Pablo de Santis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Philippe Collin, Leonardo Padura, Antonio Fogazzaro, Patrick Modiano, Mateo García Elizondo, Caroline De Mulder, Stephane Carlier, etc. among others.^[1][2]