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Bruna Dantas Lobato

@bdantaslobato

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Author of BLUE LIGHT HOURS (Oct. 15 @groveatlantic @cialetras etc), @NationalBook Award-winning translator of Brazilian lit, CW Asst Prof @GrinnellCollege

Iowa, USA / Natal, Brazil
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
7 months
We have a cover and it's beautiful!!! BLUE LIGHT HOURS, my snowy, melancholy & lyrical novel of distance, intimacy, & care between a mother and daughter is coming on Oct. 15, 2024  @groveatlantic 😭💙 Pre-order from your fave bookstore or  @Bookshop_Org :
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I woke up this morning and remembered I won a National Book Award!!!! For my translation of Stênio Gardel's The Words That Remain, a coming-of-age and coming out debut novel that's moved me to tears @NewVesselPress
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I spent 7+ years writing a Word doc about life across languages and countries, and now it's going to be a real book!!!! BLUE LIGHT HOURS is out in Fall 2024 from dream publishers @groveatlantic in the US and @cialetras in Brazil 😭😭😭🌟✨💫
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@bdantaslobato
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2 years
I have a short story up in @newyorkermag today!!! I'm absolutely floored. With many thanks to my brilliant agent @svbowlin & @NYerFiction , and to @hollywarbs for the beautiful animated illustration <3
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
Overjoyed to be longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize!!! Many thanks to @PENamerica and the judges for including Abreu's Moldy Strawberries, and to @archipelagobks for publishing this weird little book by one of my favorite writers on Earth.
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@bdantaslobato
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5 years
Friendly reminder that colonizers don't own their languages. Only 5% of Portuguese speakers live in Portugal. Only 8% of Spanish speakers live in Spain. English is the official language of 61 countries.
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
8 months
In 2024, I'll teach at Bennington College, teach a workshop at Bread Loaf, speak and read at Brown and Dartmouth, spend a whole month at MacDowell, publish two book translations, AND publish my debut novel in two languages!!! I'm both overjoyed and a little nauseous 😭😭😭
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
11 months
!!!!!! 😭💘
@nationalbook
National Book Foundation
11 months
Congratulations to the 2023 #NBAwards Translated Literature Finalists: Bora Chung, Anton Hur ( @AntonHur ), David Diop ( @DDiop_ecrivain ), Sam Taylor ( @SamTayl66360996 ), Stênio Gardel, Bruna Dantas Lobato ( @bdantaslobato )
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
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My advice for new translators is to be patient and persistent. I carried a copy of MOLDY STRAWBERRIES in Portuguese for 5 years before I ever even pitched it anywhere, then spent another 2 years pitching and translating.
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
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Stênio Gardel and I are longlisted for the @nationalbook Award for Translated Literature for his beautiful debut novel THE WORDS THAT REMAIN!!!!! I'm speechless!🤯🤯🤯🤯 @NewVesselPress
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National Book Foundation
1 year
We are thrilled to announce the 2023 #NBAwards Longlist for Translated Literature! | @NewYorker This year’s Longlist includes ten books originally published in seven different languages: Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
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I published my first book-length translation @archipelagobks this year, had a story in THE F-ING NEW YORKER, and got my first nomination for Best American Short Stories! A good writing year, despite life!
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
This might never be published but let the record show I wrote it, a miracle as far as I'm concerned! And am allowed to say I love the final result? I really do. These characters are my whole heart ❤️
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3 years
Couldn't be happier to be joining the WWB team! 🥰💘
@wwborders
WordsWithoutBorders
3 years
We’re thrilled to announce that Bruna Dantas Lobato ( @bdantaslobato ) has joined WWB as our digital marketing and communications coordinator! Read what she has to say about bilingualism, tiny dollhouses, and translating Caio Fernando Abreu:
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
10 months
A stunning and devastating book about racism and police brutality in Brazil, translated by yours truly. Preorder now:
@CharcoPress
Charco Press
10 months
An archaeology of affections: Pedro searches for his murdered father in the objects he left behind. THE DARK SIDE OF SKIN by Jeferson Tenório (tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato)
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2 years
MOLDY STRAWBERRIES by Caio Fernando Abreu is officially out in my English translation!!! Many thanks to @archipelagobks , all who have pre-ordered and reviewed it, and my favorite author for having written this gorgeous book. So proud of this one 💘💘🍓🍓🍓
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1 year
Wrote my first Translator's Note ever for THE DARK SIDE OF SKIN by @jefempessoa for @CharcoPress and now I want to write hundreds of these. It's such a fun, brainy, and personal genre, and one I love to read too. I'd 100% buy an anthology of best translator's notes/afterwords
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
@svbowlin I love Grief by Andrew Holleran, Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins), Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au, anything by Tove Jansson (tr. Thomas Teal), Difficult Light by Tomás González (tr. Andrea Rosenberg), Love by Hanne Ørstavik (tr. Martin Aitken)
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
I'm working on something about being a translator translating into my second language, and it's been interesting to see how so much of it has nothing to do with writing but with the politics of language, with the socially engineered monolingualism of English classrooms. 1/3
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
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Casually browsing through the websites of translation presses in the US and the UK to see how many BIPOC translators they've published, and turns out most of them have published none. ZERO.
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
9 months
Movie adaption alert!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
@NewVesselPress
New Vessel Press
9 months
A film of @nationalbook award winning novel THE WORDS THAT REMAIN will start production in Brazil, aimed at U.S. and intl markets. @DEADLINE reports the company working on the project did @paramountplus series Spider and @netflix series Invisible City.
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
1 year
😭😭😭😭😭😭💖💖💖
@emilyatterbury
Emily Burns
1 year
🩵 ✨it's an absolute joy and delight to announce @bdantaslobato 's exquisite debut BLUE LIGHT HOURS, a moving, wise, and elegant novel of mothers and daughters, migration, and tenderness, coming from @groveatlantic with the mighty help of @svbowlin !
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
1 year
YES!!!!! About time!!!
@PulitzerPrizes
The Pulitzer Prizes
1 year
NEW FOR 2025: The #Pulitzer Board has decided to expand eligibility for the Books, Drama and Music awards beyond the current U.S. citizenship requirement to include U.S. permanent residents and those who have made the U.S. their longtime primary home.
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3 years
Can't believe this beauty has a cover and is already available for pre-order 😭😭😭
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
10 months
And I have a novel coming out next year!!!! Honored to receive support from @poetswritersinc for BLUE LIGHT HOURS, out 10/2024 @groveatlantic 🎉🎉🎉✨✨
@poetswritersinc
Poets & Writers
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Announcing the 2023 fiction cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career writers. @alering @bdantaslobato @christinajcooke @BediakoEsinam @JessieRenM @lenavee @mayzhee
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
I wrote a story/novel chapter called "Reunion," about a mother visiting her daughter in the US after years apart. Now, in an art-imitates-life moment, I finally get to live my own version of this! On Tuesday, I'll see my mom for the first time in 5y 😭😭
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10 months
💕💕💕
@PublishersWkly
Publishers Weekly
10 months
"Special thanks to Bruna for capturing the heart and the breath of the book and writing them down in your own beautiful words." Author Stênio Gardel (r.) thanks translator Bruna Dantas Lobato as they accept the National Book Award for Translated Literature. #NBAwards
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It says more about them and their sheltered lives than about young writers, when someone says writers in their 20s and 30s haven't lived enough to have anything to say. By 30, I'd survived poverty and domestic violence, emigrated, worked so many odd jobs, bought my first home
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
I have a new short story up in @GuernicaMag ! Much gratitude to my agent @svbowlin and editor @adalva for their brilliant suggestions, and to my mother for traveling 40+ hours to see me, despite the distance and the cold, like the sweet mother in the story
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
So wild to see my translation of Abreu reviewed in @parisreview this morning!! Many thanks to Oriana Ullman for the generous reading.
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
Only a few more days until my translation of Abreu's MOLDY STRAWBERRIES is officially out in the world! Join me on tour at @odysseybks with Andrea Lawlor on 6/14, at @LeftBankBooks with @KurtBeals on 6/15, at @strandbookstore with @AntonHur on 7/27, and more. Full schedule tk!
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
Can't believe my translation of Caio Fernando Abreu's MOLDY STRAWBERRIES is rec'd in this 2022 preview from @nytimesbooks !!! Do my eyes deceive me?!?!?! @archipelagobks
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
4 years
I found out this morning I got into Yaddo and I screamed so loud I startled myself! So so excited to get a lot of writing done and finish my manuscript, and maybe, just maybe, share it with the word one day 💕✨
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
10 months
Come translate with me, @AntonHur , and @EmilyRCWilson at the 2024 Bread Loaf Translators' Conference next summer!!!
@jennifergrotz1
Jennifer Grotz
10 months
The application portal is open for the 2024 Bread Loaf Translators' Conference! I couldn't be more excited about the faculty and guests. Financial aid is available, too, and next summer we celebrate our 10th year @AntonHur @bdantaslobato @EmilyRCWilson
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
PT translators: When you get an invite to translate texts from the Northeast of Brazil, please consider passing them on to me. I know the area, dialect, and culture well, and have better solutions than making everyone sound like they're from Mississippi
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
1 year
THE DARK SIDE OF SKIN has a cover!!!! A genius and heartbreaking novel about police brutality by @jefempessoa , out next year from @CharcoPress
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
Can't wait to discuss moonlighting as a translator, hobbies, community, staying organized, and making a living with @jshyue at the @Center4Fiction on Oct. 21! Register for free here:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
1 year
Aspiring translators, I'm teaching a new translation publishing intensive with the @Center4Fiction ! Come through:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
8 months
YES!!! People who think this is ~controversial~ should check out Karen Emmerich's Literary Translation and the Making of Originals, and maybe also try and understand that narrative functions differently in different languages. Translation is an art, what can I say
@AntonHur
Anton Hur
8 months
I realize this is controversial and some translation students in Korea freak out if they find so much as a sentence moved to somewhere else in the same paragraph 😜 But quite often, titles and story order in the source is decided by the editor anyway. And they’re not the author.
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2 years
@svbowlin And of course I also love everyone's favorite quiet English-language novelists like Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy, Aysegül Savas, Sigrid Nunez, etc. Nunez's Feather on the Breath of God is an old favorite of mine
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9 months
How was this two weeks ago?? I haven't gotten used to it yet
@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
10 months
I woke up this morning and remembered I won a National Book Award!!!! For my translation of Stênio Gardel's The Words That Remain, a coming-of-age and coming out debut novel that's moved me to tears @NewVesselPress
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2 years
I had the pleasure of writing about Ling Ma's brilliant collection Bliss Montage, out today from @fsgbooks , for @astra_mag ! With many thanks to @Samuel_Rutter for having me and for the smart edits
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
1 year
My first translation of a children's book 😍
@tapiocastories
Tapioca Stories
1 year
Ooh, The Collector of Heads by Ana Matsusaki, translated by @bdantaslobato 😍🙏 @FuseEight
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
On my flight home after #ALTA44 , feeling so thankful for and energized by all the great conversations! Now I'm going to write a book-length essay on exhophonic translation and the native speaker fallacy. Brb
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
4 years
It's 3am on a Tuesday and I just finished writing the last chapter of my very personal novel manuscript about immigration and sickness. Cue the waterworks, please 😭😭😭
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
💖 Cover reveal! 💖 My translation of @GardelStenio 's debut novel THE WORDS THAT REMAIN is forthcoming in January from @NewVesselPress 😍😍😍
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
9 months
Huge thanks to @rokwon for including my debut novel BLUE LIGHT HOURS in this fantastic list!!! @ElectricLit @groveatlantic
@rokwon
R. O. Kwon 권오경
9 months
hello! I've compiled a list of 2024 books I'm anticipating from women of color & here it is, a bonanza of novels, essay collections, memoirs, & more
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5 years
I stayed up until 3 am last night reading @lydiakiesling 's THE GOLDEN STATE, and my god what a smart, stunning, and heartbreaking book on motherhood, white privilege, escape, and immigration. Will miss Daphne and sweet Honey tonight 💕
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
8 months
!!!!!!!
@NewVesselPress
New Vessel Press
8 months
THE WORDS THAT REMAIN @DublinLitAward 2024 longlist for intl fiction! The novel by Stênio Gardel translated @bdantaslobato praised by nominating librarians as poetic “tender and sad love story” that “explores language and how it affects human relations.”
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Happy pub day to the great @GardelStenio , whose beautifully queer debut novel THE WORDS THAT REMAIN made me cry so many times as I translated it from Portuguese last spring. Out now from @NewVesselPress !
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9 months
I did it, I hired an assistant. Can I please take a nap now?
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6 years
I'm so thrilled to be one of the recipients of @PENamerican 's PEN/Heim Grants for my translation of Caio Fernando Abreu's timeless, minimalist stories about otherness and allyship, loneliness and companionship.
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
1 year
Can't wait to see my translation of THE DARK SIDE OF SKIN by @jefempessoa out in the world! Forthcoming from @CharcoPress in Feb. 2024, with thanks to support from @englishpen
@CharcoPress
Charco Press
1 year
Delighted to be a part of this list with two upcoming titles: THE DARK SIDE OF SKIN and THE PLAINS. A huge shoutout to @englishpen who work so tirelessly to support those of us trying to bring you the good stuff from across the globe!
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
11 months
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@APublicSpace
apublicspace
11 months
A huge congratulations to APS Writing Fellow @bdantaslobato for being a National Book Award Translated Literature Finalist! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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3 years
I make realistic miniature houses for fun, complete with tiny furniture and tiny books. And I love that about myself! I think it's cool and strange that when I'm not writing I'm designing sets for my stories. A fellow (male) writer told me maybe I shouldn't tell people that--
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2 years
I wish my mother could read it <3
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
I have a short story up in @newyorkermag today!!! I'm absolutely floored. With many thanks to my brilliant agent @svbowlin & @NYerFiction , and to @hollywarbs for the beautiful animated illustration <3
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
1 year
So weird to see my face in @nytimesbooks !!! Thanks to @jbarbassa and my fellow translators for this one
@jenniferlcroft
Jenny Croft
1 year
Ahhhh this is so wonderful! Spending the absolute loveliest Sunday with @jbarbassa @JenLouiseWilson @EmilyRCWilson @TiffTsao @Rosenkrantz @meganalimcd @JeremyTiang @bdantaslobato and so many more! Please read this glorious translation edition of @nytimesbooks !
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
4 years
For anyone who can read both Portuguese and English: I run an online Reading Group with @andothertweets where we discuss the most exciting literature coming out of Lusophone countries and consider it for publication.
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
I'm no longer at @wwborders , as of last week. Maybe you'd like my old job and the chance to work with the best team of translation advocates ever?
@wwborders
WordsWithoutBorders
2 years
🚨🚨 APPLY TODAY! 🚨🚨 We're hiring a Digital Engagement & Communications Manager who's organized and passionate about increasing access to and engagement with groundbreaking literature from around the world. Full-time and remote (Tristate area preferred).
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
These blurbs!!! I'm so happy other people like this book as much as me! Thank you, @jstheater , @jaawlfins , Lucy Ives, Rick Moody, and Rikki Ducornet 😭😭😭
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
Tomorrow! @AntonHur and I will talk translating queerness and more:
@strandbookstore
Strand Book Store
2 years
7/27: Join us for a virtual event with literary translators @AntonHur and @bdantaslobato for a conversation examining the cultural concepts and nuance around translating gender and sexuality. This event will be held on Zoom.
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1 year
Excellent hiding spot for bunnies:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
6 years
I wrote a heartfelt thing and it's in A Public Space! So happy to be in such stellar company 💖
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
6 years
@APublicSpace #27 is here!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
I'll be teaching another session of my translation craft class with @CatapultStory in a couple of weeks! Sign up here to hear me talk about style, technique, and how to find a project that is right for you:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
So excited for this queer Brazil collection from @TwoLinesPress ! Join us virtually for the launch at @booksaremagicbk on Sept. 28. I'll talk about queerness in translation, Caio Fernando Abreu, and much more 🐈🐈🐈
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
7 years
I'm so so delighted to be a 2018 A Public Space Fellow! I've been reading and admiring the beautiful, unexpected, original writing in the magazine since I was 18. Being a part of this is the dream of dreams. ✨
@APublicSpace
apublicspace
7 years
We are thrilled to announce the 2018 A Public Space Fellows: @latoyaswatkins , @bdantaslobato , and @deborahtaffa . Many thanks to everyone who submitted, and congratulations to the new Fellows!
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
6 years
I’ll admit: sometimes I buy books online just because I like to get mail.
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@reetareads
ritareads
1 year
somebody please help I really wanna read an anthology of translator's notes
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1 year
February can't come fast enough 😭😭💖
@garymichael02
Gary Michael Perry
1 year
Put February 2024 in your diaries, guys, because one of the best Brazilian novels of this century is coming your way in a translation by @bdantaslobato (we stan an icon). V happy that @CharcoPress are publishing this (though I’ll miss the beautiful Antônio Obá cover)
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
Very pleased to have one of my translations of Caio Fernando Abreu's work in this issue! Many thanks to @BOMBmagazine for giving it a home, and don't forget to pre-order the whole collection @archipelagobks
@BOMBmagazine
BOMB Magazine
3 years
The winter issue is here, just in time for the holidays! Featuring interviews with Marina Adams, @jbbeacham , Renée Green, @JamesHannaham , Ilona Ruegg, @SaadBassem , Solmaz Sharif, Henry Threadgill, & Martha Tuttle. Pre-order your copy of BOMB #158 today.
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
It's a Saturday night and I'm a nerd, so I made a Spotify playlist of every song referenced in Caio Fernando Abreu's MOLDY STRAWBERRIES, which I had the honor to translate for @archipelagobks .
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
10 months
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@wwborders
WordsWithoutBorders
10 months
Congratulations, 2023 @nationalbook Award for Translated Literature winners @bdantaslobato and Stênio Gardel! We’ve been celebrating by revisiting our interview with this writer/translator combo—you can check it out here: @newvesselpress
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
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Someone help me explain the meaning of the #NBAwards to my mother!
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
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Stênio Gardel and I are longlisted for the @nationalbook Award for Translated Literature for his beautiful debut novel THE WORDS THAT REMAIN!!!!! I'm speechless!🤯🤯🤯🤯 @NewVesselPress
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
I'm not ready to share the whole thing yet, in all its glorious and righteous anger, but here's a sneak peek: "But if we must compare, why not call them monocultural translators, and myself just a translator? No exophonic, non-native, preceding me..." 2/3
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
So grateful for this beautiful and sensitive review of Caio Fernando Abreu's MOLDY STRAWBERRIES in @KirkusReviews . Whoever wrote it, thank you <3
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
Honored to have my name attached to @LitTranslate 's statement on #TranslatorsOnTheCover 🔥🔥🔥
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American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)
3 years
Below, you can read the ALTA statement on translators' names on the cover:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
My favorite thing about working at @wwborders has been getting the chance to read contemporary lit from all over the world every single day. This story from Oman is one of my favorites. Such beautiful writing, and so heartbreaking. 💘💘
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WordsWithoutBorders
3 years
“My bedroom ceiling began to drip. The pots and pans lined up to catch her tears were bone dry, but I was nearly drowning.” It’s day thirty of #WITMonth ! Read this story about gender transitioning by Omani writer Badriya al-Badri, tr. Ghayde Ghraowi.
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@bdantaslobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato
4 years
I just came across a line in my manuscript that is so damn good I thought I wasn't the one who wrote it. I googled it, then googled it again, and all indicates I really thought of it myself, much to my delight! May my writing surprise me more and more often this coming year <3
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
Just booked a room in a convent for a short DIY writing retreat and I'm really hoping I can befriend a nun
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
So glad I got to speak with @snavejc @TwoLinesPress , Sunyoung Lee @kayapress , & Khaled Mattawa @mqr about translation! Our virtual #AWP22 panel "Publishing Books in Translation: An Overview of Best Practices," sponsored by @CLMPorg , goes live on Friday:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
6 years
In 2018, I started running, began to live alone, translated a book, wrote a draft of another one, let myself eat dessert whenever I felt like it, hired an immigration lawyer, visited my homeland and got to know another one, received my first awards, and found out I like smoothies
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
4 years
I've recently enjoyed reading Marie NDiaye, Magda Szabó, Hanne Ørstavik, and Yoko Ogawa. Who should I read next?? Women in translation only, please
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
Looking forward to this conversation with luminary @AntonHur
@FeministPress
Feminist Press
2 years
Next Wednesday 7/27 with @strandbookstore ! Join translators @AntonHur and @bdantaslobato for a virtual conversation examining the cultural concepts and nuance around translating gender and sexuality. RSVP here:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
1 year
Listening to Fiona Apple, sipping coffee, and editing my novel: a perfect day.
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
Happy #InternationalTranslationDay ! Here are several paintings of St. Jerome, always worried about his word choices and bills to pay:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
4 years
You know what would be nice? If publishers actually welcomed latino translators from time to time, not just "authoritative" white translators who love Latin America. You can welcome both!
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
She told me she did, with the help of Google Translate! Now she calls The New Yorker "Nova-Yorquino"
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
My doctor just asked me if I was a writer based solely on how I held my pen to sign some paperwork. Apparently my whole demeanor changed, which is the strangest and coolest compliment I've ever gotten as a writer, but I'd also believe if she told me she was psychic 👀
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
Does anyone else call the DFW airport David Foster Wallace?
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
Excited about this new @CatapultStory translation publishing intensive I'll be teaching in September! Sign up here:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
Thank you, @laurencocking for this lovely conversation on coping with intense content as a translator, simultaneously resisting and yearning for the West, immigrant loneliness, writing my kind of immigrant novel, and more:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
My favorite magazine (and dream employer) @wwborders 's January issue features animals in fiction translated from eight languages. Cue all the animal gifs!
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WordsWithoutBorders
3 years
Our January 2022 issue travels back in time and through our archive to round up international stories featuring animals both wild and tame. Tales translated from eight languages explore the complexities of human-animal relationships. Read the issue:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
11 months
Dear friends, if any of you have taught one of my translations, stories, or virtual panels in the past, would you please send me your syllabus? It would be of immense help to my immigration case
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
One weird thing about being a writer who's also a translator is having readers occasionally ask me who's the writer of my own stories. Me, I wrote it, I say. You? You wrote it in English? they ask in astonishment. And I'm left confused about what's so shocking about that🧐
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
I adore this 2018 commemorative doodle from in honor of Caio Fernando Abreu. Can we bring it to the US homepage for the English-language release of Moldy Strawberries this month @Google ? Pretty please? @archipelagobks
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
3 years
Look at this very real book!! Can't wait to hold it!
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Emily Hunsberger | Tertulia
3 years
I heard @bdantaslobato read from Moldy Strawberries by Caio Fernando Abreu over the summer, and it took root in some corner in me. Excited to read the rest (accompanied by the author's indicated playlist) and respond Bruna's heart-wrenching translation. Book comes out April 2022.
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
Many thanks to Rick Moody for a great chat about writing queerness, translating style, and Caio Fernando Abreu's MOLDY STRAWBERRIES @archipelagobks ! Catch the recording this Friday at 2pm EST at @santjordiusa festival:
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
2 years
Translators live in book time. 10 minutes' worth of events are dilated in 50 pages, which might take me weeks to translate.
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