Lil Reif lives in Vienna, Austria, and translates fiction, childrens‘ literature and poetry from Latvian to German. She holds a university diploma in translation (Russian, Portuguese and Law), a PhD in Sociolinguistics and has worked as a free lance translator and interpreter, including for film and film festivals. From 2005 to 2008, she was a guest lecturer at Ventspils University College with a fellowship from the Robert Bosch Foundation, a period when she started to learn Latvian. Translated works (fragments and full translations from novels, short stories, poems and childrens’ books) from Andris Akmentiņš, Maira Asare, Ingmāra Balode, Māris Bērziņš, Rasa Bugavičute-Pēce, Inguna Cepīte, Kirils Ēcis, Inga Gaile, Madara Gruntmane, Rebeka Lukošus, Ligija Purinaša, Aleksandra Runde, Daina Tabūna, Toms Treibergs, Arvīds Viguls, Lote Vilma Vītiņa, Inese Zandere, Inga Žolude and Juris Zvirgzdiņš. In 2018, she received the translators’ prize of the city of Vienna for the translation of a fragment from the novel „Svina Garša” from Māris Bērziņš. Recent translations are “The bad mother” by Inga Gaile, a theatre play about Asja Lācis, Rasa Bugavičute-Pēce’s novel “The boy who could see in the dark” and Vilis Kasims’ flash fiction “Lysergic Blues”.