Adriana Lisboa

Adriana Lisboa
Adriana Lisboa, 2010
Born	April 25, 1970 Rio de Janeiro
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Brazilian
Genre	Fiction, poetry
Website
www.adrianalisboa.com

Adriana Lisboa (born April 25, 1970 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian writer. She is the author of six novels, and has also published poetry, short stories and books for children. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese, her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.^[1] Crow Blue is Lisboa's most recent novel translated into English (Bloomsbury, UK, 2013) ^[2] and an Independent book of the year.^[3] Her stories and poems have appeared in Granta, Modern Poetry in Translation,^[4] The Brooklyn Rail, Litro Magazine, The Missing Slate, and others.

Adriana Lisboa is one of Brazil's leading authors. Her work has been the recipient of, among others, the following honors: José Saramago Prize of Literature for Symphony in White (novel), Japan Foundation Fellowship, Brazilian National Library Fellowship, and the Newcomer of the Year Award from the Brazilian section of International Board on Books for Young People for Língua de trapos (A Tongue Made of Scraps), a book of poetry for children.^[5] In 2007, Hay Festival/Bogota World Book Capital selected her as one of the 39 most important Latin American writers under the age of 39.^[6]

Biography

Adriana Lisboa was born in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated from the Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) with a BFA degree in Music, and has a MFA in Brazilian Literature and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Rio de Janeiro State University (Uerj). She was a visiting scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, at the University of New Mexico and at the University of Texas, Austin.^[7] In 2014 she was the Distinguished Visiting Brazilian Writer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lisboa previously worked as a musician and a translator. She started to make a living performing at eighteen as a Brazilian Jazz singer in France, and afterwards was a flautist and music teacher in Brazil. She translated into Portuguese the fiction, poetry and nonfiction of such authors as Cormac McCarthy, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stefan Zweig, Margaret Atwood, Maurice Blanchot, and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others.^[8]

Lisboa is a practicing Buddhist.^[9] She has been a vegan for many years, and an animal rights advocate.^[10] Since 2007, she resides with her family near Boulder, Colorado.

Published works

Novels

• Hanoi - Brazil, 2013. Publisher: Alfaguara. Also published in Italy. Forthcoming in France and Argentina.
• 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. Forthcoming in Norway.
• Hut of Fallen Persimmons - USA, 2011. Original title: Rakushisha, 2007. Publisher: Texas Tech University Press. Translated by Sarah Green. Also published in Portugal, Italy and Romania.
• Um beijo de colombina - Brazil, 2003. Also published in Portugal and Sweden.
• 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, Egypt and Norway. Forthcoming in Poland, Turkey, Croatia and Albania.
• Os fios da memória - Brazil, 1999 (out of print)

Poetry

• Parte da paisagem - Brazil, 2014. Publisher: Iluminuras. Poems from this book appeared in "Modern Poetry in Translation: Twisted Angels", 2014

Short stories

• 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

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

For children

• A sereia e o caçador de borboletas - 2009)
• Contos populares japoneses - 2007. Also published in Italy
• Língua de trapos - 2005

Awards and Recognitions

• 2003 José Saramago Prize for Symphony in White (Portugal)
• 2005 Moinho Santista Award for her body of work (Brazil)
• 2006 Newcomer of the Year Award, Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil - Brazilian Section of IBBY for Língua de trapos (Brazil)
• Highly Recommended, Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil - Brazilian Section of IBBY, for Língua de trapos and Contos populares japoneses
• 2007 Hay Festival/Bogota World Book Capital - selected as one of the 39 most distinguished Latin American writers under the age of 39
• 2004 and 2008 Jabuti Award - Shortlisted in the Best Novel of the Year category, for Um beijo de colombina and Rakushisha (Brazil)
• 2009 Grand prix des lectrices de Elle - Shortlisted in the Best Novel category for Des roses rouge vif/Sinfonia em branco (France)
• 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Awards - Shortlisted in the translated fiction category for Symphony in White - translated by Sarah Green (USA)^[11]
• 2011 São Paulo Prize for Literature — Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for Azul-corvo^[12] (Brazil)
• 2011 Zaffari & Bourbon Award - Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for Azul-corvo (Brazil)
• 2014 São Paulo Prize for Literature — Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for Hanói

Filmography

Still from the film “Lisboa”.

Lisboa. Documentary | 2012 | Color | HD | 30 min. Produced by Heritage Film Project, LLC, with the support of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations | Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C.. Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Film based on the experiences of Brazilian Writer Adriana Lisboa now living in Louisville. Shot in February 2012 on location in and around Boulder. Premiered on WHTJ PBS / WCVE PBS, Virginia, also aired by Rocky Mountain PBS.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}

References

External links

• http://www.adrianalisboa.com