A Conversation with Writer and Translator Bruna Dantas Lobato

The UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department invites you to “A Conversation with Writer and Translator Bruna Dantas Lobato”: A talk with Brazilian author, translator, and Professor of Creative Writing at Grinnell College about her debut novel Blue Light Hours.

Novel Description: “In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont, a young woman settles into the warm blue light of her desk lamp before calling the mother she left behind in northeastern Brazil. There, four thousand miles apart and bound by the angular confines of a Skype window, they ask each other a simple question: what’s the news?”