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Bruna Dantas Lobato

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 Translation for The Words that Remain by Stênio Gardel. She was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is forthcoming in October 2024 from Grove Atlantic.


Belonging Somewhere Else, Too: Seven Books on Making a Home in a New Country

Bruna Dantas Lobato Recommends Ayşegül Savaş, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Ananda Lima, and More
October 17, 2024  By Bruna Dantas Lobato
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Translating Race: Bruna Dantas Lobato on Jeferson Tenório’s The Dark Side of Skin

“I let the racialized language live in the novel as it ought to, to stand as is.”
February 14, 2024  By Bruna Dantas Lobato
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A (Tiny) Room of One’s Own: Bruna Dantas Lobato on the Intricate Joy of Miniatures

Introducing When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies
November 21, 2022  By Bruna Dantas Lobato
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Brazilian Rhythms, Queer Longing, and Caio Fernando Abreu: A Literary Playlist

Bruna Dantas Lobato on the Music That Helps Her Translate
June 17, 2022  By Bruna Dantas Lobato
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