Xina Vega is a writer and university lecturer. She has published the novels Cardume (2017, Premio Xerais de las letras gallegas) and Dark Butterfly (2012). She has written theatre criticism for the magazine El Público and literary criticism for Quimera, Zurgai, Anuario de Estudos Galegos and Grial o Tempos Novos, among others. She has won the Premio Stendhal and been a finalist for the Premio Nacional de Traducción for her translation of Georges Perec's La Disparation/El Secuestro (Anagrama). She has also been a regular contributor to the Trujaman section of the Centro Virtual Cervantes.. She is currently lecturer in the Spanish Language Department of the University of Vigo. Her research interests centre on bilingual lexicography, the analysis of language interaction in literary autotranslation and the work of Álvaro Cunqueiro, on whose work she is recognised as one of the best authorities.