Petra Strien-Bourmer

Petra Strien-Bourmer holds a doctorate in Romance studies and worked for many years as a freelance translator of Spanish and Latin American prose and poetry. She translated numerous works by authors including Laura Esquivel, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Enrique Vila-Matas; eight novels by Vila-Matas appeared in her translation. In 2017, she received the Johann Friedrich von Cotta Translation Prize for her translation of Miguel de Cervantes’s novel The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda. She also taught seminars on Spanish and Latin American literature and literary translation at universities.