Lisa Dillman

Lisa Dillman has translated a number of Spanish and Latin American writers. Some of her recent translations include Rain Over Madrid and Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba and Yuri Herrera’s three novels. She won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award for Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World. She teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Trick to Translating Rhythm, Tone, and Slang

Lisa Dillman's Tools of the Trade, Yuri Herrera Edition

June 9, 2017 By Lisa Dillman

On the Genius of Yuri Herrera’s Character Names

Lisa Dillman Shares a Translator's Secrets to Unpacking Meaning

July 7, 2016 By Lisa Dillman

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