Found in Translation: Translation Slam with Mariana Enríquez

Authors

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  Alice Whitmore

  Alice Whitmore is a writer and literary translator from Spanish and Italian. Her translation of Mariana Dimópulos’ Imminence was awarded the 2021 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize. She is the translations editor at Cordite Poetry Review and an associate editor at Giramondo, and lives on Peek Whurrung country.
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  Gabriel Garcia Ochoa

  Dr Gabriel García Ochoa was born in Mexico City, and has lived in Australia for twenty years. He is the Director of the Global Immersion Guarantee program at Monash University. Gabriel is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is a writer, academic, and professional translator. His research focuses on the role that stories play in intercultural communication. He has taught internationally, in the Indo-Pacific, Asia, Europe, and North America. His first novel, The Hypermarket, was published in 2019.
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  Lilit Žekulin Thwaites

  Lilit Žekulin Thwaites is an award-winning Australian literary translator (Spanish to English), and Adjunct Professor (contemporary Spanish literature) at La Trobe University and current President of The Australian Association for Literary Translation (AALITRA). Her book-length translations include Crossing Waters (Luisa Etxenike), the bestselling The Librarian of Auschwitz (Antonio Iturbe), Australian Connection (multiple authors), and Rosa Montero’s futuristic Tears in Rain, and Weight of the Heart. Her translations of short stories, essays and the occasional poem have been published in journals and anthologies. She presents sessions at writers’ festivals, gives talks on Spain-related and translation topics, and (co-)organises visits to Australia by Spanish-speaking writers. In 2016, she was awarded Spain’s Order of Civil Merit.
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  Mariana Enríquez

  Mariana Enríquez is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, and Our Share of Night, which was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela.

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