Bruna Dantas Lobato

Bio

Bruna Dantas Lobato’s translation of The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel won 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. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, released in 2024 from Grove Atlantic in North America, Companhia das Letras/PRH in Brazil (in her own translation), Dasan in South Korea, and İş Kültür in Turkey. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Grinnell College. Born and raised in Natal, Brazil, she lives in Iowa with her partner and pet bunny.