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Bruna Dantas Lobato is a literary translator and author of the novel Blue Light Hours (Grove Atlantic, 2024), which was shortlisted for the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, longlisted for the Oceanos International Prize and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and is being published in 8 countries—including Brazil and Portugal in her own translation. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, The Dial, and The Common, and has received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, Jentel, A Public Space, and more.
Her translation of The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel received the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Other translations have received the English PEN Translates Award and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and have been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the PEN Translation Prize, and the Republic of Consciousness Prize.
She holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University, an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, and a BA in Literature from Bennington College. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Grinnell College. Born and raised in Natal, Brazil, she lives in Iowa, USA.
CONTACT
For press inquiries for Blue Light Hours: Jenny Choi at Grove
For rights and writing inquiries: Sarah Bowlin at Aevitas Creative
For events and translation inquiries: email Bruna directly