Lisa Dillman

Lisa Dillman lives in Decatur, Georgia, where she translates Spanish and Latin American writers and teaches at Emory University. Some of her recent translations include Such Small Hands (winner of the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Award) and A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba; Signs Preceding the End of the World, Kingdom Cons and The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera, and The Bitch, by Pilar Quintana, which was a finalist for the National Book Awards in Translated Fiction.

Back Draft: Lisa Dillman

By and January 13, 2021
The translator on selecting her subjects, discovering the work of Andrés Barba, and the dangers of cultural hegemony.

Kingdom Cons

Excerpt from the novel by Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman June 5, 2017
The one time Lobo had gone to the pictures he saw a movie with a man like this: strong, sumptuous, dominating the things in the world. He was a King, and around him everything became meaningful.