Bruna Dantas Lobato

Fiction Writer, Translator

Author's Bio

Bruna Dantas Lobato is a fiction writer and translator. Her translation of Stênio Gardel’s The Words that Remain won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is forthcoming in October 2024 from Grove Atlantic in the U.S. and Companhia das Letras/PRH in Brazil (in her own translation into Portuguese).

Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common, and has received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, Jentel, A Public Space, NYU, Disquiet International, and more. 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, where she is Visiting Faculty for Spring 2024.

Bruna was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and lives in St. Louis, U.S, with her partner and pet bunny.

Education: 
New York University MFA
Writers Retreats: 
DISQUIET International Literary Program
Jentel Artist Residency
MacDowell
Yaddo
Literary agent: 
Sarah Bowlin, Aevitas Creative Management

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Book:
Blue Light Hours (Grove Press, 2024)
Journal:
New Yorker

Translation

Books:
Tokyo Suite by Giovana Madalosso, translated from the Portuguese (Europa Editions, 2024)
;
The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel, translated from the Portuguese (New Vessel Press, 2023)
;
Moldy Strawberries by Caio Fernando Abreu, translated from the Portuguese (Archipelago Books, Inc., 2022)
Prizes won: 

2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature
2023 English PEN Translates Award
2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Latino/Latina/Latinx
Fluent in: 
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Born in: 
Natal
Brazil
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Last update: Jan 13, 2024