Bruna Dantas Lobato is a Brazilian writer and literary translator based in New York City. Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, BOMB, Ploughshares, The Common, and elsewhere. Learn more: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

"A contemplative novel, The Tokyo Suite examines the flawed aspects of being human and all that it entails."
Read the full review on THE TOKYO SUITE (Giovana Madalasso, tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato, Europa Editions 2025): www.swirlandthread.com/the-tokyo-su...

Ana Paula Maia, an author we had the pleasure to host at our 12th event, has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize with her novel On Earth As It Is Beneath (tr. Padma Viswanathan, Charco Press 2025). Congratulations to both author and translator!

"I don’t cross the piazza as I normally do. Instead, I go around it. Still, the army follow me with their eyes."
THE TOKYO SUITE (Giovana Madalosso, tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato, Europa Editions 2025) is our next book in line: www.europaeditions.co.uk/book/9781787...

You can now register for our 22nd session to discuss The Tokyo Suite (Giovana Madalosso, tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato). The session will be held on Wednesday, the 20th of May 2026 at 19h (GMT+1) and we'll be joined by both author and translator. Follow the link:
www.pintbookclub.com/.../pint-boo...

Our first event of the year will be held on Wednesday, the 18th of March 2026 at 19h (GMT), to discuss Macunaíma by Brazilian Mário de Andrade, alongside translator Katrina Dodson. Registration is now open: www.pintbookclub.com/.../pint-boo...

Our line-up for 2026: Macunaíma (Mário de Andrade), The Tokyo Suite (Giovana Madalosso), A Girl is Lost in Her Century Looking for Her Father (Gonçalo M. Tavares), Pandora (Ana Paula Pacheco) and Three Stories of Forgetting (Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida).
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Registration is now open for our 20th online event happening on Wednesday, 19th of November 2025 at 7pm (GMT). Portuguese author Lídia Jorge alongside translators Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott will join us to discuss The Wind Whistling in the Cranes: www.pintbookclub.com/event-detail...

Registration is now open for our 19th online event to discuss Whites Can Dance Too alongside author Kalaf Epalanga and translator Daniel Hahn on the 17th of September 2025.

This will be a bilingual event (English and Portuguese). Registration is free:

www.pintbookclub.com/event-detail...

You can now watch all the video-clips from PinT Book Club 17th session where we discussed What is Mine alongside Brazilian author José Henrique Bortoluci and translator Rahul Bery.
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Discover a vibrant collection of literature from a global linguistic community that stretches across four continents! Join PinT, an exciting new online book club that explores translated works from the diverse Portuguese-speaking world. To find our more, go to our website:
www.pintbookclub.com

Sign-up is now open for our 16th session! On Wednesday the 12th of March 2025 (7pm GMT) we shall be discussing THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRÁS CUBAS by legendary Brazilian author Machado de Assis alongside translator Flora Thomsom DeVeaux. Register here: www.pintbookclub.com/event-detail...

"My idea was fixed, fixed like ... I can't think of anything fixed enough in this world: maybe the moon, maybe the pyramids of Egypt, maybe the dead German Diet."
THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRÁS CUBAS by Brazilian Machado de Assis is our next book in line: www.penguin.co.uk/.../the.../9...

Why not try a new kind of PinT this year – one that tastes of Portuguese-language literature in English translation?! At PinT Book Club we host online sessions every 2 months where we discuss interesting texts from all over the Portuguese-speaking world: www.pintbookclub.com