Gabriel Dols is a lecturer teaching several Translation and ESL subjects at the Universitat de les Illes Balears. He has also been a professional book translator for over 15 years. He has translated into Spanish, mostly from English, more than 60 novels and essays, including works by Samuel Beckett, Noam Chomsky, Francis Fukuyama, Alan Greenspan, Timothy Leary, Lorrie Moore, George Pelecanos, Terry Pratchett, Saki, William Vollmann, and many others. He holds a PhD in Philology and Philosophy from UIB, where he studied a master's degree in Modern Languages and Literatures as well. He also holds a graduate degree in Literary Translation from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and another in Translation and Technologies from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. His research fields include the translation of African anglophone postcolonial literature and the interaction between translation and censorship, specifically in the translation of pop lyrics