Marly Winckler

Marly Winckler is a sociologist and translator. She has translated The Collected Writings of Blavatsky from English to Portuguese. She is also the translator of more than 60 books including Animal Liberation by Peter Singer and Becoming Vegetarian by Vesanto Melina and Brenda Davis. Vegetarian since 1983 she created “Sitio Vegetariano”– the first webpage on vegetarianism in Portuguese–and the first discussion lists on vegetarianism in Portuguese and Spanish: veg-brasil and veg-latina (now ivu-latina). Latin American and Caribbean Coordinator of the International Vegetarian Union from 2000 to 2013. President and founder of the Brazilian Vegetarian Society from 2003 to 2015, now Honorary President. IVU chair 2011-2014 / 2018 – She lives in Florianopolis, the beautiful Island which hosted the 36th IVU World Vegetarian Congress in 2004, organized by her.

Chair of the International Council of the International Vegetarian Union from 2011-2014 and from 2018 to present. She was also the IVU Regional Secretary for Latin America, 2000-2011
Congress Organiser, Florianopolis, Brazil 2004.