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Congratulations to 2019 DISQUIET faculty Justin Torres, winner of the National Book Award in fiction for Blackouts, and to Bruna Dantas Lobato, DISQUIET PA and 2018 Luso-American Fellowship recipient, whose translation of Stênio Gardel’s novel The Words That Remain won the National Book Award for translated literature!
We are thrilled to learn that Bruna Dantas Lobato, a 2018 Luso-American Fellow and current Program Assistant, has been longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of Stênio Gardel’s The Words That Remain. Congratulations, Bruna!
We’re excited to report that alum Zain Khalid’s debut novel, Brother Alive, has been shortlisted for the Ursula K. Leguin Prize for fiction!
We were thrilled to learn that Maaza Mengiste’s novel The Shadow King has been longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize! See the whole list here.
Ananda Lima, a 2020 Lusa-American Fellow, has been awarded the 2020 Newfound Prose Prize! Her chapbook “Tropicália” will be published by Newfound in the spring of 2021. Congratulations, Ananda!