Luisa Etxenike

Luisa Etxenike is a highly regarded, award-winning author from the Basque Country whose works offer unusual perspectives on controversial topics, and whose language, while carefully crafted and often poetic, is always direct. She has published nine novels, two books of short stories, a collection of poetry, three plays, a noir novel � deux, and the non-fiction book Correspondence with Mircea Catarescu . Lilit Zekulin Thwaites is an award-winning Australian literary translator of novels,...See more

Luisa Etxenike is a highly regarded, award-winning author from the Basque Country whose works offer unusual perspectives on controversial topics, and whose language, while carefully crafted and often poetic, is always direct. She has published nine novels, two books of short stories, a collection of poetry, three plays, a noir novel � deux, and the non-fiction book Correspondence with Mircea Catarescu . Lilit Zekulin Thwaites is an award-winning Australian literary translator of novels, short stories, poetry and essays. She is the English translator of renowned Spanish writer, Rosa Montero, and her bestselling translation of Antonio Iturbe's The Librarian of Auschwitz (2017) won a prestigious Sydney Taylor award for teen readers. In 2014, she was awarded an OMI Translation residency in the US. She was the inaugural winner of the AAWP-Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Translators' Prize 2020 and holds Spain's Order of Civil Merit for her promotion of Spanish literatures and cultures in Australia. See less