Adriana Lisboa

Adriana Lisboa, 2015

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

Career

From 1971 to 1975 Lisboa grew up in Brasília . Then she returned to her native Rio de Janeiro and attended the Colégio Santa Úrsula. At the age of 18 she went to France for a year , where she performed as the singer of the Música Popular Brasileira (MPB). After her return to Rio de Janeiro she worked as a music teacher until 2000. She graduated from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro with a bachelor's degree in music in 1994 . She studied Brazilian literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) , where she obtained her master's degree in 2002 , and her doctorate in comparative literature. She was a visiting scholar at the Nichibunken in Kyoto in 2006 , at the University of New Mexico in 2007 and at the University of Texas in Austin in 2008/09 . She has lived in the United States since 2007 .

In 1999 she published her debut novel Os fios da memória . In 2003 she was awarded the Prémio José Saramago for her novel Sinfonia em branco . In 2005 she received the Prêmio Moinho Santista for her complete works and in 2006 for Língua de trapos the Newcomer Prize of the Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil (FNLIJ). The Bogotá 39 / Hay Festival project ranked her among the 39 most important Latin American authors under 39 in 2007. With the French-language translation of Sinfonia em branco , she reached third place at the Prix ​​des Lectrices of Elle magazine and the final of the PEN America translation award .

In 2007 Lisboa published the novella O coração às vezes para de bater . It is about a teenager in Rio de Janeiro whose life changes after a skateboard that his girlfriend gave him as a present. The director Maria Camargo turned the novella into a short film of the same name, which was shown at the Festival do Rio in 2009.

Inspired by Lisboa's fictional novel Azul-corvo , Eduardo Montes-Bradley made the documentary Lisboa about her in 2012 . The photos show Lisboa mostly in Boulder , a city in the US state of Colorado , where she lived at the time.

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

Lisboa was part of a delegation of 70 authors who represented the host country Brazil at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair . There she presented her novel The Summer of Butterflies ( Sinfonia em branco ).

Awards

• 2003: Prémio José Saramago for Sinfonia em branco
• 2004: Finalist of the Prêmio Jabuti in the Roman category with Um beijo de colombina
• 2005: Prêmio Moinho Santista for her complete works
• 2006: Newcomer Prize of the Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil (FNLIJ) for Língua de trapos
• 2008: Finalist of the Prêmio Jabuti in the category Roman with rakushisha
• Finalist of the Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa in the category Best Book of the Year with Rakushisha
• Finalist of the Prix ​​des Lectrices der Elle with Des roses rouge vif / Sinfonia em branco
• 2011: Finalist, PEN Center USA Literary Awards, Translated Fiction Category for Symphony in White
• 2011: Finalist of the Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura and the Prêmio Zaffari & Bourbon for Azul-corvo

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Novels

• Os fios da memória. Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 1999, ISBN 85-325-1017-5 .
• Sinfonia em branco. Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2001, ISBN 8532512437 .

  in German translation by Enno Petermann: The summer of butterflies. Structure, 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 .
• Hanói. Alfaguara, Rio de Janeiro 2013, ISBN 978-85-7962-220-5 .

stories

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

Books for children and young readers

• Língua de trapos. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2005, ISBN 85-325-1752-8 (illustrations by Rui de Oliveira).
• O coração às vezes para de bater. PubliFolha, São Paulo 2007, ISBN 978-85-7402-835-4 .
• Contos populares japoneses. Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2008, ISBN 978-85-61384-27-2 (illustrations by Janaina Tokitaka).
• A sereia eo caçador de borboletas. Rocco, Rio 2009, ISBN 978-85-62500-02-2 (illustrations by Rui de Oliveira).

Web links

• Own web presence
• Literature by and about Adriana Lisboa in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Literature by and about Adriana Lisboa in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Adriana Lisboa at perlentaucher.de
• Adriana Lisboa in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lisboa, Adriana. In: Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural de Literatura Brasileira , itaucultural.org.br, accessed October 8, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Author Adriana Lisboa ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) brazil13frankfurtbookfair.com, accessed on October 8, 2013.
3. ↑ Article: Regina R. Félix: Tom, volume e arranjo no chiaroscuro da memória: Sinfonia em branco, de Adriana Lisboa ( Memento from June 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea . No. 37, 2011, pp. 93-103. Retrieved October 8, 2013 (Portuguese).
4. ↑ Review: Wilberth Claython Ferreira Salgueiro: Lisboa, Adriana. Sinfonia em branco. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 2001. In: REEL - Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Literários. Vitória, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005 (3 pages). Retrieved October 8, 2013 (Portuguese).
5. ^ "O Coração às Vezes Pára de Bater" vira films; autora fala de depressão. In: Folha de S. Paulo , October 6, 2009, accessed October 8, 2013.
6. ^ Eduardo Montes-Bradley filma documentário inspirado no livro Azul-corvo, agenciariff.com.br, accessed on October 8, 2013.
7. ^ Adriana Lisboa - The Summer of Butterflies aufbau-verlag.de, accessed on October 8, 2013.
8. ↑ Brasileira Adriana Lisboa vence Prémio Literário José Saramago In: Público October 28, 2003, accessed October 8, 2013.