Sidarta Ribeiro (Author) SIDARTA RIBEIRO is the founder and first director of the Brain Institute of Federal University or Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, where he currently is Professor of Neuroscience. He received a Ph.D in Animal Behavior from Rockefeller University. His research topics encompass memory, sleep and dreams, neuroplasticity, symbolic competence in in non-human animals, computational psychiatry, and psychedelics. Daniel Hahn (Translator) Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and literary translator. He translates from Portuguese, Spanish and French and has translated literature from Europe, Africa and the Americas, including the work of Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Philippe Claudel, Maria Duenas, Eduardo Halfon, Jose Luis Peixoto, Jose Saramago and Gon alo M. Tavares. His translations have won literary awards including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and the LA Times Book Award.

He is also the author of several works of non-fiction, including The Tower Menagerie and the forthcoming If This Be Magic , and the award-winning children's picture-book Happiness is a Watermelon on Your Head , and is co-editor of 'The Ultimate Book Guide' series. He reviews for publications including the Guardian , Spectator and Prospect , and is former Chair of the Translators Association and the Society of Authors and former National Programme Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation.