Lit in Translation

Michel Laub

Born 1973 · Brazil

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Jabuti 2021 · Shortlist

    Solução de Dois Estados

    Title translated by AI:“Two-State Solution”

    Michel Laub · 47 when first published

    Novel · 248 pages · Family, Politics

    AI-generated summary:A troubled German director filming a documentary on violence in Brazil sits down separately with a São Paulo sister and brother, after the sister is assaulted at an arts debate in 2018.

  • In English

    Jabuti 2014 · Shortlist

    A Poison Apple

    A Maçã Envenenada

    Michel Laub · 40 when first published

    Novel · 160 pages · Coming of age, Love

    AI-generated summary:In 1993 a teenage conscript in Porto Alegre, who plays guitar in a band, weighs going absent without leave, and risking jail, to catch Nirvana's one Brazilian show with his girlfriend.