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K-State Today

April 12, 2019

Spanish professor featured on 2019 Best Translated Book Award longlist

Submitted by Laura Kanost

Laura Kanost, associate professor of Spanish and affiliated faculty in gender, women, and sexuality studies, is featured on the 2019 Best Translated Book Award longlist for "A Dead Rose," her translation of a 1914 novel by Peruvian feminist Aurora Cáceres. Read more about "A Dead Rose" on the K-State Spanish blog.

Kanost teaches three Spanish<>English translation courses in the department of modern languages and advises students in the Spanish translation minor program. She is also the co-author of "Intermediarios," an open-access textbook for community translation and interpreting, funded by the Open/Alternative textbook initiative.