Authors
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translated Literature for The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel. Dantas Lobato was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and teaches at Grinnell College. Blue Light Hours is her debut novel.
Author Tour Dates
Tuesday
03/18 |
Cambridge, NY |
BATTENKILL BOOKS Reading and conversation |
Time TK |
Wednesday
03/19 |
Williamstown, MA |
WILLIAMS COLLEGE Reading and class visit |
Time TK |
Thursday
03/20 |
Boston, MA |
BOSTON UNIVERSITY Sponsored by the Newbury Center for First-Gen Students Reading
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7:00 PM |
Friday
03/21 |
Boston, MA |
BOSTON UNIVERSITY A Translation Seminar lecture “Rules Are For Breaking: Translating Outside of the Mother Tongue, Self-Translation, and Other Translation Heresies” Open to the public |
2:30 PM |
Saturday
03/22 |
Columbus, OH |
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium Keynote Speech |
Time TK |
Thursday
03/27 |
Los Angeles, CA |
AWP CONFERENCE “New Styles for the Immigrant Novel,” with Nazlı Koca, Shubha Sunder, and Yuka Igarashi |
12:10 PM |
Saturday
03/29 |
Los Angeles, CA |
AWP CONFERENCE “Can Writers ‘Live the Dream’?: On Paying the Bills While Doing What You Love,” with Jennifer Baker, Namrata Podar, Erika Wurth, and Ari Honarvar |
9:00 AM |
Monday
04/07 |
Virtual |
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Co-sponsored by Ohio State’s Center for Latin American Studies and Northern Arizona University’s Department of Global Languages and Cultures |
5:00 PM |