Nick Caistor (born 15 July 1946) is a British translator and journalist, best known for his translations of Spanish and

Portuguese literature Portuguese literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the Portuguese language, particularly by citizens of Portugal; it may also refer to literature written by people living in Portugal, Brazil, Angola and Mozambique, and other P ...

. He is a past winner of the Valle-Inclán Prize for translation. He is a regular contributor to

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...

, the

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, ''

The Times Literary Supplement ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (''TLS'') is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp. History The ''TLS'' first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to ''The Times'' but became a separate publication i ...

'', and ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

''. He lives in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

, and is married to fellow translator

Amanda Hopkinson Amanda Hopkinson (born 1948) is a British scholar and literary translator. Biography She was born in London to the British journalist and magazine editor Sir Tom Hopkinson and photographer Gerti Deutsch. She gained a BA from the University of Wa ...

As translator

* Luis Gutiérrez Maluenda, ''Music for the Dead'' *

César Aira César Aira ( Argentine Spanish: ; born 23 February 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentinian writer and translator, and an exponent of contemporary Argentinian literature. Aira has published over a hundred short book ...

, ''The Hare'' *

Roberto Arlt Roberto Arlt (April 26, 1900 – July 26, 1942) was an Argentine novelist, storyteller, playwright, journalist and inventor. Biography He was born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 26, 1900. His parents were bo ...

, ''The Seven Madmen'' *

Dulce Chacón Dulce Chacón (3 June 1954 – 3 December 2003) was a Spanish poet, novelist and playwright. Biography Born into a traditional family in the Extremadura region of Spain, her family moved to Madrid upon her father's death, when she was 12 years ...

, ''The Sleeping Voice'' * Paulo Coelho, ''The Devil and Miss Prym'' (with Amanda Hopkinson) *

Edgardo Cozarinsky Edgardo Cozarinsky (; born 1939 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a writer and filmmaker. He is best known for his Spanish-language novel ''Vudú urbano''. Life Cozarinsky was born to an Argentine family of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. His name reflects ...

, ''The Bride from Odessa'' * Edgardo Cozarinsky, ''The Moldavian Pimp'' * Rolo Diez, ''Tequila Blue'' *

Eugenio Dittborn Eugenio is an Italian and Spanish masculine given name deriving from the Greek ' Eugene'. The name is Eugénio in Portuguese and Eugênio in Brazilian Portuguese. The name's translated literal meaning is well born, or of noble status. Similar de ...

, ''Mapa: Airmail Paintings'' (with Claudia Rousseau) *

Carlos María Domínguez Carlos María Domínguez (born 23 April 1955 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer and journalist who has lived in Montevideo since 1989. Biography Domínguez began his career in the Argentine magazine, ''Crisis''. Afterwards, he specialized in ...

, ''The House of Paper'' (with Peter Sis) *

Ildefonso Falcones Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra (born 1959) is a Spanish lawyer and writer from Barcelona. He is best known for writing the best-seller '' Cathedral of the Sea.'' Biography Ildefonso Falcones is the son of a lawyer and homemaker. He had a career ...

, ''Cathedral of the Sea'' * Rodolfo Fogwill, ''Malvinas Requiem'' * Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett, ''Dog Day'' * Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett, ''Prime Time Suspect'' *

Martín Kohan Martín Kohan (born 1967) is an Argentine academic, essayist and novelist. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires. He teaches literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, University of ...

, ''Seconds Out'' * Martín Kohan, ''School For Patriots'' *

Pedro Mairal Pedro Mairal (born 1970) is an Argentine novelist, poet and musician. He has published more than a dozen books, among them the novel ''La Uruguaya'' (English translation: ''The Woman from Uruguay'') which won the Tigre Juan Award in 2017. His work ...

, ''The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra'' *

Juan Marsé Juan Marsé Carbó (8 January 1933 – 18 July 2020) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel ...

, ''Shanghai Nights'' *

Alberto Méndez Alberto Méndez (August 27, 1941 – December 30, 2004) was a Spanish novelist. He graduated from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and worked in publishing. His novel ''Los girasoles ciegos'' won several awards, including the Sentenil Pri ...

, ''Blind Sunflowers'' * Eduardo Mendoza, ''A Light Comedy'' * Eduardo Mendoza, ''An Englishman in Madrid'' * Eduardo Mendoza, ''The Year of the Flood'' * Eduardo Mendoza, ''The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt'' * Eduardo Mendoza, ''No Word from Gurb'' *

Andrés Neuman Andrés Neuman (born January 28, 1977) is a Spanish- Argentine writer, poet, translator, columnist and blogger. The son of Argentine émigré musicians, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a mother of French and Spanish descent and a fath ...

, ''Talking to Ourselves'' * Andrés Neuman, ''Traveler of the Century'' (with Lorenza Garcia) *

Juan Carlos Onetti Juan Carlos Onetti Borges (July 1, 1909 – May 30, 1994) was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories. Early life Onetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was the son of Carlos Onetti, a customs official, and Honoria Borges, who b ...

, ''The Shipyard'' *

Guillermo Orsi Guillermo Orsi (born 1946) is an Argentine journalist and crime novelist. He has written several acclaimed works of crime fiction, two of which have been translated into English by Nick Caistor. Among Orsi's literary awards is the 2009 Dashiell Ha ...

, ''No-one Loves a Policeman'' * Guillermo Orsi, ''Holy City'' *

Hernando Calvo Ospina Hernando Calvo Ospina (born 6 June 1961) is a Colombian journalist, author and director of various documentaries. He resides in France. Life and work Born in Cali, he was a student of journalism at the Central University of Ecuador in Quito, Ecu ...

, ''¡Salsa!: Havana Heat, Bronx Beat'' * Isabel Allende, ''

The Japanese Lover The Japanese Lover is the eighteenth book by Chilean author Isabel Allende. It was published in 2015 and tells the story of a wartime love story between a Polish woman and a Japanese American in the aftermath of the Nazi Invasion of Poland in ...

'' * Isabel Allende, In the midst of winter *

Félix J. Palma Félix José Palma Macías (Sanlúcar de Barrameda Sanlúcar de Barrameda (), or simply Sanlúcar, is a city in the northwest of Cádiz province, part of the autonomous community of Andalucía in southern Spain. Sanlúcar is located on the left ...

, ''The Map of Time'' * Félix J. Palma, ''The Map of the Sky'' *

Alan Pauls Alan Pauls (born 22 April 1959 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer, literary critic and screenwriter. An early essay he did on ''Betrayed by Rita Hayworth'' by Manuel Puig is said to show his interest in him as an "experimental writer." Althoug ...

, ''The Past'' *

Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León (born Montevideo, 1947) is an Uruguayan writer. He is best known for his historical novel ''Maluco. La Novela de Los Descubridores'', a fictional account of Magellan's circumnavigation of the world. The book won ...

, ''Five Black Ships: A Novel of the Discoverers'' *

Carmen Posadas Carmen Posadas (born August 13, 1953 in Montevideo) is a prize-winning Uruguayan-Spanish author of books for children. She also writes for film and television. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela. Biography She was born in Montevi ...

, ''Child's Play'' (with

) *

Julián Ríos Julián Ríos (born March 11, 1941 in Vigo, Galicia) is a Spanish writer, most frequently classified as a postmodernist, whom Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes has called "the most inventive and creative" of Spanish-language writers. His first two ...

, ''Procession of Shadows'' *

Alonso Salazar Alonso is a Spanish name of Germanic origin that is a Castilian variant of ''Adalfuns''. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 36.6% of all known bearers of the surname ''Alonso'' were residents of Spain (frequency 1:222), 26.1% of Mexico (1:83 ...

, ''Born to Die in Medellín'' (with introduction by Colin Harding) *

Carolina Sanín Carolina Sanín Paz (born April 28, 1973) is a Colombian writer who also holds Spanish citizenship. She has published novels, essays, short stories, and children's books. She has been a professor at SUNY Purchase in the United States, and at Un ...

, ''The Children'' *

José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which heco ...

, ''Journey to Portugal'' (with Amanda Hopkinson) *

Lorenzo Silva Lorenzo Manuel Silva Amador (born 7 June 1966 in Carabanchel, Madrid) is a Spanish award-winning writer. After earning a law degree at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 2002. He has written stories, artic ...

, ''The Faint-Hearted Bolshevik'' (with Isabelle Kaufeler) * Dominique Sylvain, ''The Dark Angel: A Diesel and Jost Investigation'' * Valérie Tasso, ''Insatiable: The Erotic Adventures Of A French Girl In Spain'' *

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (14 June 1939–18 October 2003) was a prolific Spanish writer from Catalonia: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and a FC ...

, ''The Buenos Aires Quintet (Pepe Carvalho Mysteries)'' * Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, ''Tattoo'' * Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, ''The Man of My Life'' *

Pedro Zarraluki Pedro Zarraluki (born 1954) is a Spanish writer. He was born in Barcelona. He published his first book at the age of 20 and has written several novels and short story collections since then. He has won numerous prizes, including the Premio Nada ...

, ''The History of Silence''

As author, co-author, or editor

* ''Mexico'' (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides) (with Maria Doulton and Petra Fischer) * ''

Che Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted ...

: A Life'' * ''The Rainstick Pack'' (Sacred Earth Series) * ''The World in View: Spain'' * ''The World in View: Argentina'' * ''The World in View: Israel'' * ''Picking Up the Pieces: Corruption and Democracy in Peru'' (LAB Short Books) (with Susana Villaran) * ''Columbus's Egg: New Latin American Stories on the Conquest'' (editor) * ''

Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 200 ...

'' (Critical Lives) * ''Buenos Aires'' * ''Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary Companion'' (Cities of the Imagination) * ''Chile in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture'' * ''Argentina in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture'' * ''The Faber Book of Contemporary Latin American Short Stories'' (editor) * ''Nicaragua in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture'' (with Hazel Plunkett)

References

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