Maialen Marin-Lacarta

Maialen Marin-Lacarta is a translator and Research Assistant Professor in the Translation Programme at Hong Kong Baptist University. She holds a PhD in Chinese Studies and in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) in Paris and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Prior to joining HKBU, she taught at INALCO and the Open University of Catalonia. She has also completed graduate and postgraduate studies at Bordeaux 3 University, the University of Sheffield, Beijing University, National Taiwan University and Chengchi University in Taiwan. Her native languages are Spanish and Basque. She has translated Shen Congwen’s Quiet (Calma, Alpha Decay, 2010) and Border Town (La ciudad fronteriza, Bellaterra, 2013) in Spanish, as well as contributing to the translation and correction of The Call of Spain: Chinese volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (Los brigadistas chinos en la guerra civil, Catarata, 2013) by Hwei-ru Tsou and Len Tsou. In 2013, she was awarded the prestigious Jokin Zaitegi translation prize for the translation of Mo Yan’s short story collection Shifu You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh (Hori da umorea, maisu!, Elkar, 2013) into Basque.

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