Adriana Lisboa

Adriana Lisboa was born on the 25^th April 1970 in the city of Rio de Janeiro; she is a Brazilian writer. Adriana Lisboa is the author of 6 novels in the country and she has published many poems, short stories and books for the children of the country. Originally, her books were written in the Portuguese language and today they have been translated into more than 7 other foreign languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Swedish, Serbian and Romanian.

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Adriana Lisboa is seen as a distinguished figure among the modern day writers of the country. She has won many prizes with her works.

Biography

Adriana Lisboa was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro; she graduated from the federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro with BFA degree in Music and she has MFA in Brazilian Literature and has her Ph.D in comperative literature from the University of Rio de Janeiro. She was also a visiting student at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in the city of Kyoto, at the University of New Mexico and also at the University of Texas at Austin. She was the distinguished Visiting writer of the country, Brazil at the University of California Berkeley in the year 2014.

Adriana Lisboa also worked as a musician and a translator. She began making money as a performer at the age of 18 as a Jazz singer of the country in France and after that she was a flautist and a teacher of music in the country.

She translated the works of Cormac McCarthy, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stefan Zweig, Margaret Atwood, Maurice Blanchot, and Robert Louis Stevenson into the Portuguese language.

Published works

Novels

Ø  Hanoi - Brazil, 2013. Publisher: Alfaguara. Forthcoming in France, Italy and Argentina.

Ø  Crow Blue - United Kingdom, 2013/USA, 2014. Original title: Azul corvo, 2010. Publisher: Bloomsbury. Translated by Alison Entrekin. Also published in France, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, and Serbia.

Ø  Hut of Fallen Persimmons - USA, 2011. Original title: Rakushisha, 2007. Publisher: Texas Tech University Press. Translated by Sarah Green. Also published in Portugal and Italy.

Ø  Um beijo de colombina - Brazil, 2003. Also published in Portugal and Sweden.

Ø  Symphony in White - USA, 2010. Original title: Sinfonia em branco, 2001. Publisher: Texas Tech University Press. Translated by Sarah Green. Also published in Portugal, France, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Romania and Egypt. Forthcoming in Poland and Turkey.

Ø  Os fios da memória - Brazil, 1999 (out of print).

Short stories

Ø  Caligrafias - Brazil, 2004. Stories from this book appeared in Brazil: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press), Litro magazine #114 and BrooklynRail.com.

For young adults

Ø  O coração às vezes para de bater - 2007. Also published in Switzerland (French)

For children

Ø  A sereia e o caçador de borboletas - 2009)

Ø  Contos populares japoneses - 2007. Also published in Italy

Ø  Língua de trapos - 2005

Awards and Recognitions

Ø  2003 José Saramago Prize for Symphony in White (Portugal)

Ø  2005 Moinho Santista Award for her body of work (Brazil)

Ø  2006 Newcomer of the Year Award, Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil - Brazilian Section of IBBY for Língua de trapos (Brazil)

Ø  Highly Recommended, Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil - Brazilian Section of IBBY, for Língua de trapos and Contos populares japoneses

Ø  2007 Hay Festival/Bogota World Book Capital - selected as one of the 39 most distinguished Latin American writers under the age of 39

Ø  2004 and 2008 Jabuti Award - Shortlisted in the Best Novel of the Year category, for Um beijo de colombina and Rakushisha (Brazil)

Ø  2009 Grand prix des lectrices de Elle - Shortlisted in the Best Novel category for Des roses rouge vif/Sinfonia em branco (France)

Ø  2011 PEN Center USA Literary Awards - Shortlisted in the translated fiction category for Symphony in White - translated by Sarah Green (USA)^[11]

Ø  2011 São Paulo Prize for Literature — Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for Azul-corvo^[12] (Brazil)

Ø  2011 Zaffari & Bourbon Award - Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for Azul-corvo (Brazil)

Ø  2014 São Paulo Prize for Literature — Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for Hanói