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Bruna
Dantas Lobato

Bruna Dantas Lobato is a fiction writer and award-winning translator. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is published by Grove Atlantic in the US, and by Companhia das Letras/PRH in Brazil (in her own translation into Portuguese).

PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

2026

Giovana Madalosso

The Tokyo Suite

2024

Stênio Gardel

The Words that Remain

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