Thwaites, Lilit: - Lilit Zekulin Thwaites is an award-winning Melbourne-based literary translator (Spanish>English), and an honorary research fellow in contemporary Spanish literature at La Trobe University.
In 2016, she was awarded Spain\'s Order of Civil Merit for her promotion of Spanish culture in Australia..
She presents sessions at writers\' festivals, gives talks on Spain-related and translation topics, and organises visits to Australia by Spanish-speaking writers.
Her translations of short stories, essays and the occasional poem have been published in journals and anthologies. (2016).
Her book-length translations include the bestselling The Librarian of Auschwitz (Antonio Iturbe, 2017), Australian Connection (multiple authors, 2019), and two futuristic novels by Rosa Montero, Tears in Rain (2012), and Weight of the Heart .
Thwaites, Lilit: - Lilit Zekulin Thwaites is an award-winning Melbourne-based literary translator (Spanish>English), and an honorary research fellow in contemporary Spanish literature at La Trobe University
