Charlotte Coombe
British literary translator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator[1][2][3] working from French and Spanish into English. She graduated with a degree in Modern Languages & European Studies from the University of Bath[4] in 2007. She has translated over a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction.[5]
In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclán for her translation of Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo.[6][7] She has been awarded two PEN Translates Awards for her translations,[8] as well as the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for Literary Translation from The Southern Review, in 2023.[9]
In 2020, along with Tina Kover, she co-founded the YouTube channel Translators Aloud,[10][11] shining a spotlight on literary translators reading from their work.[12][13][14]
List of translated works
- Vincent Doumeizel – The Seaweed Revolution
- Marvel Moreno December Breeze (co-translated with Isabel Adey)
- Antonio Diaz Oliva – 'Mrs. Gonçalves and the Lives of Others'
- Aitor Romero Ortega – 'Bridges of Bosnia'
- Victor Vegas – 'She Dances Alone'
- Jimena González - 'City' in Modern Poetry in Translation, Issue no. 1 Spring, 2021
- Juan Villoro – 'The Parable of the Bread' in the anthology: And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again [15]
- Mario Vargas Llosa – Speech for the opening of the 20th international literature festival berlin
- Eduardo Berti – 'Imagined Lands'
- Ricardo Romero – 'Pandemic Diary'
- Margarita García Robayo – Holiday Heart [16][17]
- Marvel Moreno – 'Tea in Augsburg' (Co-translated with Isabel Adey)
- Marvel Moreno – 'Self-Criticism' [18] (Co-translated with Isabel Adey)
- Margarita García Robayo – Fish Soup [19]
- Eduardo Berti – The Imagined Land
- Ricardo Romero – The President's Room
- Abnousse Shalmani – Khomeini, Sade and Me
- Asha Miró and Anna Soler-Pont – Traces of Sandalwood
- Marc De Gouvenain – The Solomon Islands Witness
- Rosamaría Roffiel – 'These Are Things I Only Tell Myself'
- Edgardo Nuñez Caballero – 'Landscapes With Beasts'
- Santiago Roncagliolo – 'The Well'
References
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