Lithuanian Culture Institute
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Margarita Santos Cuesta

Margarita Santos Cuesta

Year and place of birth

1979, Salamanca (Spain)

Education

Licentiate degree in English Philology from the University of the Basque Country.
Licentiate degree in Translation studies from Salamanca University (licenciatura).
BA in Spanish and English Language and Literature from Cologne University.
Attended a number of Lithuanian language and culture courses at Kaunas Technological University and Vytautas Magnus University.
Attended a number of German language courses at Cologne University and Bonn University
Attended a number of Russian language courses at Cologne University and various language schools.

Languages

Spanish - native
Translates from German, Lithuanian and English to Spanish

Work activities

Works in Cologne (Germany)
Spanish language tutor at a school for adults; translates literature (predominantly literature for young adults and children) for publishing houses in Spain and Mexico.

Worth mentioning

Member of the Spanish Literary Translators Association (ACE Traductores).

Contacts

santosmarga@yahoo.es

Translated books

  1. Alvydas Šlepikas, Bajo la sombra de los lobos (Mano vardas – Marytė), Barcelona: Tusquets Editores, 2021.
  2. Dalia Grinkevičiūtė, Lituanos junto al mar de Láptev (Lietuviai prie Laptevų jūros), kartu su Carmen Caro Dugo, Madrid: Ciudadela, 2020.
  3. Undinė Radzevičiūtė, Peces y dragones (Žuvys ir drakonai), Logroño: Fulgencio Pimentel, 2019.
  4. Lituania de un vistazo. Vilnius: Pasauliui apie mus, kartu su Alfonso Rascón, 2008.
  5. Kęstutis Kasparavičius, El cuadro desaparecido (Dingęs paveikslas), Barcelona: Thule Eds., 2008.
  6. Kęstutis Kasparavičius, Zanaforius el Grande (Kiškis Morkus Didysis), Mexico: FCE, 2010.

Anthologies or anthologies translated and translated by an interpreter

Publications in periodicals