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Bruna Dantas Lobato

A portrait of Bruna Dantas Lobato, a translator of Portuguese.

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Bruna Dantas Lobato

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Bruna Dantas Lobato is a Brazilian writer and literary translator based in New York City. Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, BOMB, Ploughshares, The Common, and elsewhere, and has been recognized with fellowships from Yaddo, A Public Space, NYU, and DISQUIET....

Her translation of Caio Fernando Abreu’s Moldy Strawberries (PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant 2019) is forthcoming from Archipelago Books in April 2022, and her translation of Giovana Madalosso’s Tokyo Suite is forthcoming from Europa Editions in the fall of 2022.

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Articles by Bruna Dantas Lobato

Works Cited In Franciane Conceição Silva’s Panorama of Afro-Brazilian Literature

By Franciane Conceição Silva

References and Further Reading Alves, Miriam.Mulher Mat(r)iz. Belo Horizonte: Nandyala, 2011.Alves, Miriam. Entrevista. Duke, Dawn (Org.). A escritora afro-brasileira: ativismo e arte literária.…

Translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato

Insurgent Voices: A Panorama of Afro-Brazilian Writing

By Franciane Conceição Silva

Politicians know I’m a poet. And that poets face death when their people are oppressed.

Translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato

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From the Translator: On “Beauty, a Terrible Story”

By Bruna Dantas Lobato

Image: From the cover of the Brazilian edition of The Dragons Haven’t Been to Paradise, published by Companhia das Letras. Bruna Dantas Lobato’s translation of Caio Fernando Abreu’s…

Beauty, a Terrible Story

By Caio Fernando Abreu

“Who cares about an old wreck?”

Translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato

PEN World Voices Festival As It Happened: Literary Quest: Westbeth Edition

By Bruna Dantas Lobato

Alexandre Vidal Porto reads from his novel Sergio Y. Photo: Bruna Dantas Lobato.I grabbed a map of the Westbeth Artists Housing in the West Village and traced a plan for the evening of salon-style…

PEN World Voices Festival As It Happened: Translation Slam

By Bruna Dantas Lobato

Michael F. Moore, Abdellah Taïa, Emma Ramadan, and Chris Clarke. Photo: Alex Zucker.At the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on Friday, April 29, Michael F. Moore hosted the Translation Slam for the PEN World…

PEN World Voices Festival As It Happened: Expats

By Bruna Dantas Lobato

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jamaica Kincaid, Marlon James, Colum McCann, and Eric Banks.Photo: Bruna Dantas Lobato.The term “expatriate” is overburdened, too close to exile on the one hand…

Dispatches from the 2016 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature

By Bruna Dantas Lobato

Photo: Bruna Dantas LobatoThe PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature returned for its twelfth year. This year's focus was Mexican literature. Below…

The New Literature From Europe Festival As It Happened: Women in Translation

By Bruna Dantas Lobato

Between 2008 and 2014, 2,471 fiction books appeared in English for the first time: 1,775 of those books were written by men, compared to 657 by women, and 39 by both men and women. Female writers make…

The New Literature From Europe Festival As It Happened: From Page to Stage

By Bruna Dantas Lobato

American writer Paul Theroux once said that “scriptwriting is drudgery, a massive insult to the brain of a person who cares about the nuances of language; it is no more literary than elaborating…