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Bruna Dantas Lobato

  • Por Arthur Malcolm Dixon

“I am a better translator for being a foreigner”

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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. In 2023, she was awarded the National Book Award in Translated Literature for The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel. She was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and teaches at Grinnell College. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, was published in October 2024 by Grove Atlantic.

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Arthur Malcolm Dixon is co-founder, lead translator, and Managing Editor of Latin American Literature Today. His book-length translations include the novels Immigration: The Contest by Carlos Gámez Pérez and There Are Not So Many Stars by Isaí Moreno, both from Katakana Editores, and the poetry collections Intensive Care by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza and Wild West by Alejandro Castro, both from Alliteration Publishing. He works as a community interpreter in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where from 2020 to 2023 he was a Tulsa Artist Fellow.

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