Dr. Lilit Žekulin Thwaites

Country: Australia

Dr. Lilit Žekulin Thwaites is an award-winning, Melbourne-based literary translator (Spanish–English), interviewer, moderator, lecturer, and academic researcher. She has translated books by notable writers such as Rosa Montero and Antonio Iturbe, including the best-selling The Librarian of Auschwitz. Her translations of short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. In 2015, she won the inaugural Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator Prize, and in 2016 was awarded Spain’s Order of Civil Merit for her promotion of Spanish literature and culture in Australia.

Dr. Lilit Žekulin Thwaites adalah seorang penerjemah sastra (Spanyol-Inggris) yang berbasis di Melbourne, pewawancara, moderator, dosen, dan peneliti akademis. Ia telah menerjemahkan buku-buku oleh penulis terkenal seperti Rosa Montero dan Antonio Iturbe, termasuk buku terlaris The Librarian of Auschwitz. Terjemahan cerpen, esai, dan puisinya telah muncul di berbagai jurnal dan antologi. Pada 2015, ia memenangkan Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator Prize, dan pada 2016 dianugerahi Spain’s Order of Civil Merit untuk promosinya terhadap sastra dan budaya Spanyol di Australia.