Adriana Lisboa is a Brazilian writer. She currently resides in the United States.

She has published five novels, among which Symphony in White and Rakushisha (Hut of Fallen Persimmons in the American translation), a book of short stories, a novella and three books for children.

Among her honors are the José Saramago Award for Symphony in White, the Moinho Santista Award for her body of work, a Japan Foundation Fellowship, a Brazilian National Library Fellowship and the Newcomer of the Year Award from the Brazilian section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) for her book of poetry for children, Língua de trapos (A Tongue Made of Scraps). In 2007, Hay Festival/Bogota World Book Capital selected her as one of the 39 most distinguished Latin American writers under the age of 39. Her books have been published in eight countries, with translations into English, Spanish, French, Italian and Swedish.

Lisboa is part of the board of directors of US-Brazil Connect, a nonprofit presided by Mary Gershwin and created in 2011 to strengthen education, improve skills and share the power of the arts to connect communities in Brazil and the United States.

Lisboa has a BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 in Music from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and an MA

Master of Arts

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 in Brazilian Literature PhD

PHD

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 in Comparative Literature from Rio de Janeiro State University. She performed as a Brazilian Jazz singer in France, where she lived for a while, and as a flautist and music teacher in Brazil. She also spent time in Japan, a country that inspired two of her books. She was a visiting scholar at the University of New Mexico

University of New Mexico

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, the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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 and Nichibunken, in Kyoto.

Lisboa has worked also as a translator, having translated into Portuguese such authors as Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

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, Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer

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, Peter Carey, Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler

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, Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot

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, Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

-Biography:Robinson was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, and did her undergraduate work at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University, receiving her B.A., magna cum laude in 1966, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D...

, Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

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, Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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 and Émile Faguet

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