Rudder, Robert S.: - Robert S. Rudder holds a doctorate degree in Spanish/ English history from the University of Minnesota (1962-69) with a specialization in Golden Age Spanish Literature. He began translating short stories while teaching Spanish at the University of Minnesota in the 1960s, and later continued his dedication to literary translation during his teaching years at UCLA and other universities in California. He has published twelve books, including a new translation of the picaresque classic novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1975), and English translations of such writers as Benito Pérez Galdós, Rosario Castellanos and Cristina Peri Rossi. He has received grants from the Spanish Ministry of Culture for the translation of Nazarín by Pérez Galdós (1997); and from the National Endowment for the Arts for Lo prohibido by Pérez Galdós (2004) and Tres y un sueño by Ana María Matute (2017).