Lilit Žekulin Thwaites

Lilit Žekulin Thwaites is an award-winning Australian literary translator (Spanish-to-English), an Adjunct Professor of contemporary Spanish literature at La Trobe University, and the current President of the Australian Association for Literary Translation (AALITRA). Her book translations include the bestselling The Librarian of Auschwitz (Antonio Iturbe, 2023 & 2017), Australian Connection (multiple authors, 2019), and two futuristic novels by Rosa Montero, Tears in Rain (2012), and Weight of the Heart (2016). Her translations of short stories, essays and poetry have been published in journals and anthologies. She presents sessions at writers’ festivals, gives talks about Spain and translation, and helps organize visits to Australia by Spanish-speaking writers.  In 2016, she received Spain’s Cross of the Order of Civil Merit for her promotion of Spain’s literatures and cultures in Australia. Read more about her work at the following links: https://zhuktranslations.com/;  https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/lmthwaites.