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. Dantas Lobato was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. BLUE LIGHT HOURS is her debut novel.

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Q&A

Q&A with Bruna Dantas Lobato, author of Blue Light Hours

By STEFFAN TRIPLETT

"Translation, much like writing, is a relational art."