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At 6PM - The Iowa City Book Festival presents award-winning author/translator Bruna Dantas Lobato will read from her new novel, Blue Light Hours. "By many measures, Bruna Dantas Lobato is quite the literary star. At 33, the Brazilian American has published a cascade of translations, both fiction and nonfiction, from Portuguese to English, and last year won the National Book Award for translated literature. But one story, she said, was missing from her bibliography: her own. With her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, centered on a Brazilian student who sees her close relationship with her mother reduced to a computer screen when she moves to New England for college, she is finally closing that gap."--Celia McGee, New York Times (profile)Bruna Dantas Lovato’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. Her 2023 National Book Award in Translation was 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.
"Reading Blue Light Hours, I found myself first pensive, then intrigued, then wildly moved and completely captured. You won't regret any time spent with Bruna Dantas Lobato's delicate and wise constructed universe of connection, of loss, of the immigrant's privations, of radiant love."--Sarah Thankam Mathews
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15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240
