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Adriana Lisboa (born April 25, 1970 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian writer. She is the author of six novels, and has also published poetry, short stories and books for children. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese, her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. ''Crow Blue'' is Lisboa's most recent novel translated into English (Bloomsbury, UK, 2013) and an ''Independent'' book of the year. Her stories and poems have appeared in Granta, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Brooklyn Rail, Litro Magazine, The Missing Slate, and others. Adriana Lisboa is one of Brazil's leading authors. Her work has been the recipient of, among others, the following honors: José Saramago Prize of Literature for ''Symphony in White'' (novel), Japan Foundation Fellowship, Brazilian National Library Fellowship, and the Newcomer of the Year Award from the Brazilian section of International Board on Books for Young People for ''Língua de trapos'' (A Tongue Made of Scraps), a book of poetry for children. In 2007, Hay Festival/Bogota World Book Capital selected her as one of the 39 most important Latin American writers under the age of 39. ==Biography== Adriana Lisboa was born in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated from the Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) with a BFA degree in Music, and has a MFA in Brazilian Literature and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Rio de Janeiro State University (Uerj). She was a visiting scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, at the University of New Mexico and at the University of Texas, Austin. In 2014 she was the Distinguished Visiting Brazilian Writer at the University of California, Berkeley. Lisboa previously worked as a musician and a translator. She started to make a living performing at eighteen as a Brazilian Jazz singer in France, and afterwards was a flautist and music teacher in Brazil. She translated into Portuguese the fiction, poetry and nonfiction of such authors as Cormac McCarthy, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stefan Zweig, Margaret Atwood, Maurice Blanchot, and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Lisboa is a practicing Zen-Buddhist. She has been a vegan for many years, and an animal rights advocate.〔(The Boulder (and Beyond) Vegan Meetup Group website ).〕 Since 2007, she resides with her family near Boulder, Colorado. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adriana Lisboa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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