Adriana Lisboa

Adriana Lisboa Gurevitz Fábregas ( born April 25, 1970 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian writer. Her literary work includes novels, short stories and children's stories. Her books have been translated into several languages.

Career

From 1971 to 1975 Lisboa grew up in Brasília. Then she returned to her hometown of Rio de Janeiro and attended the Colégio Santa Úrsula. At the age of 18 she spent a year in France, where she performed as a singer in the Música Popular Brasileira ( MPB). Upon her return to Rio de Janeiro, she worked until 2000 as a music teacher. A music studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, she completed in 1994 with the Bachelor from. She studied at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro ( UERJ ) Brazilian literature, which she gained her Masters in 2002, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature. As a visiting scientist held in 2006 at the Nichibunken in Kyoto, in 2007 at the University of New Mexico and 2008/ 09 at the University of Texas in Austin on. Since 2007 she has lived in the United States.

In 1999, she published her first novel Os fios because memória. For her novel Sinfonia em branco she was honored in 2003 with the Prémio José Saramago. In 2005 she was awarded the Prêmio Moinho Santista for her life's work and 2006 for Língua de trapos Newcomer Award of the Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil ( FNLIJ ). The Bogotá 39/Hay Project Festival in 2007 it was one of the 39 most important Latin American writers under 39 The French-language translation of Sinfonia em branco she reached Prix of Lectrices of Elle magazine the third place and the final of the PEN Translation Prize of America.

Published in 2007, Lisboa, the amendment O coração para às vezes de bater. It is about a teenage boy in Rio de Janeiro, whose life changes by a skateboard, he gets a present from his girlfriend. The director Maria Camargo put the amendment into an eponymous short film that was shown, among others, at the 2009 Festival do Rio.

Inspired by Lisboa's fictional novel Azul - corvo turned Eduardo Montes -Bradley in 2012 about her documentary Lisboa. The images show Lisboa predominantly in Boulder, a city in the U.S. state of Colorado, where she lived at the time.

Besides her work as a writer, she has also translated works of Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mary Shelley and Maurice Blanchot into Portuguese.

Lisboa is one of a delegation of 70 authors, representing the host country Brazil at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013. She will introduce her novel The Summer of Butterflies ( Sinfonia em branco ).

Awards

• 2003: Prémio José Saramago Sinfonia em branco for
• 2004: finalist in the Prêmio Jabuti in the category of novel To beijo de colombina
• 2005: Prêmio Moinho Santista for her life's work
• 2006: Newcomer Prize of the Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil ( FNLIJ ) for Língua de trapos
• 2008: finalist in the Prêmio Jabuti in the category of novel Rakushisha
• Finalist in the Casino da Póvoa Prémio literario for Best Book of the Year with Rakushisha
• 2011: finalist in the PEN Center USA Literary Awards, Category translated fiction for Symphony in White
• 2011: finalist in the Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura and Prêmio Zaffari & Bourbon for Azul - corvo

Work

Novels

• Os fios memória there. Rocco, Rio de Janeiro in 1999, ISBN 85-325-1017-5.
• Sinfonia em branco. Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2001, ISBN 8,532,512,437th in German translation by Enno Petermann: The Summer of butterflies. Building, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-351-03537-2.
• To beijo de colombina. Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2003, ISBN 85-325-1654-8.
• Rakushisha. Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2007, ISBN 978-85-325-2198-9.
• Azul - corvo. Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2010, ISBN 978-85-325-2598-7.
• Hanoi. Alfaguara, Rio de Janeiro, 2013, ISBN 978-85-7962-220-5.

Stories

• Caligrafias. Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2004, ISBN 85-325-1791-9 (drawings of Gianguido Bonfanti ).

Children and Youth books

• Língua de trapos. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2005, ISBN 85-325-1752-8 ( Illustrations by Rui de Oliveira ).
• O coração para às vezes de bater. PubliFolha, São Paulo 2007, ISBN 978-85-7402-835-4.
• A sereia e o caçador de borboletas. Rocco, Rio 2009, ISBN 978-85-62500-02-2 ( Illustrations by Rui de Oliveira ).