'El resultado global es la presentación de un mundo completo y denso que toma un apabullante aire de realidad.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī- : reasonably well written, but ultimately too labored and long She was inspirational and insightful, and I greatly look forward to meeting other translators like her over the course of the year.Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. She gave me her honest advice about the reality of working as a translator, which helped me in ways far beyond the realm of the dissertation and for which I am grateful as I begin thinking about the future/careers.

I had the chance to meet with Dr Thwaites on an individual basis she shared her advice on the recurrent translation challenges faced when translating a text by Montero, and her personal take on strategies to deal with these.

I had been thinking about translating the work of Montero after learning of her popularity in Spain contrasted with a lack of awareness and availability of an English translation in this country. Finally, she discussed curious coincidences within the translating world, uncovered during her work on Antonio Iturbe’s La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz (2012).Īnother coincidence arose from the fact that Dr Thwaites came to Warwick just as I was beginning to carry out my research into possible texts to translate for my Masters dissertation. In her next lecture, she discussed the difficulties of translating cultural context and the issues related to translating titles, particularly in the case of La loca de la casa (Montero, 2003). She spoke about the role of the translator and of translation, the process of editorial exchange and negotiation, translator’s visibility, intervention and mediation, the question of fidelity to the source text, issues of adaptation and her strategy for translating Tears in Rain (2012), originally Lágrimas en la lluvia (Rosa Montero, 2011). She specialises in the work of women writers, with a focus on contemporary literature, society, and cultures, and women writing from the periphery.ĭr Thwaites recently came to Warwick as an International Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies (nominated by Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes) to give a series of lectures on her translations of various works by the Spanish author, Rosa Montero. Dr Lilit Žekulin Thwaites has received multiple awards for her translations from Spanish into English, including the Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator prize in 2015. Thanks so much to Katie Staunton, postgraduate student in our MA in Translation and Cultures, for writing this blog post, and sharing her experience with us!Įarlier in the term, languages students at Warwick had the pleasure of hearing from Dr Lilit Thwaites, a literary translator and former professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Lágrimas en la lluvia by Rosa Montero