Lawrence Schimel

Lawrence Schimel is a full-time author, writing in both Spanish and English, in a wide range of genres. He is also a prolific literary translator, working into both English and Spanish, of over 140 books.
For his adult books, Lawrence has won the Lambda Literary Award (twice), the Spectrum Award, the Independent Publisher Book Award, and many others.
His translations have won a PEN Translates Award from English PEN three times, as well as a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship (with Layla Benitez-James for HIJA DEL CAMINO by Lucía Asué Mbomio Rubio), and have been an Honour Title for the Américas Award and the Global Literature in Libraries Best Translated YA book Award, and finalists for the Eisner Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Lambda Literary Award, among others.