Beatriz de Moura, a Brazilian-born Spanish publisher and translator, died on April 17, 2026.
She was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1939, grew up in a family of diplomats and traveled often in her youth, and studied at the University of Geneva. She moved to Catalonia in 1961 and worked for several publishing houses in Barcelona, where she later became close with Esther Tusquets.
In 1968, she married Òscar Tusquets, and the following year they co-founded Tusquets Editores. De Moura was credited with helping bring Spanish authors such as Enrique Vila-Matas, Javier Cercas and Fernando Aramburu to wider international attention, and she also translated works from French into Spanish, including Milan Kundera’s Identity and Ignorance.
Beatriz de Moura, 86–87, Brazilian-born Spanish publisher and translator.