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

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...

, and Portuguese literature. 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. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasti ...

, the

BBC World Service The BBC World Service is a British Public broadcasting, public service broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception area, language selection and audience reach. It broadcas ...

, ''

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 ...

'', and ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

''. He lives in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...

, 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, England, to the British journalist and magazine editor Sir Tom Hopkinson and photographer Gerti Deutsch. She gained a BA from the Uni ...

, with whom he frequently collaborates in his translation work.

As translator

Luis Gutiérrez Maluenda Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

, ''Music for the Dead'' *

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

, ''The Hare'' *

Roberto Arlt Roberto Arlt (April 2, 1900 – July 26, 1942) was an Argentine novelist, storyteller, playwright, journalist and inventor. Biography Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt was born in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1900. His parents were both immigra ...

, ''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 Paulo Coelho de Souza ( , ; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His 1988 novel '' The Alchemist'' became an international best-seller. Early life Paulo Coelho ...

, ''The Devil and Miss Prym'' (with Amanda Hopkinson) *

Edgardo Cozarinsky Edgardo Cozarinsky (; 13 January 1939 – 2 June 2024) was an Argentine writer and filmmaker. He was best known for his Spanish-language novel ''Vudú urbano''. Life and career Cozarinsky was born to an Argentine family of Ukrainian-Jewish desce ...

, ''The Bride from Odessa'' * Edgardo Cozarinsky, ''The Moldavian Pimp'' * Rolo Diez, ''Tequila Blue'' * Eugenio Dittborn, ''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, ''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 wor ...

, ''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 P ...

, ''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 28 January 1977) is an Argentine writer, poet, translator, columnist and blogger. Early life and education The son of Argentine émigré musicians, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a mother of French and Spanish ...

, ''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 be ...

, ''The Shipyard'' * Guillermo Orsi, ''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 Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as '' The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...

, '' The Japanese Lover'' * Isabel Allende, ''

In the Midst of Winter ''In the Midst of Winter'' () is a 2017 novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende. It is the twenty-third book by Allende, who has made a name for herself as one of the eminent writers of magical realism. She is widely considered a preeminent Latin ...

'' *

Félix J. Palma Félix José Palma Macías (Sanlúcar de Barrameda Sanlúcar may refer to: * Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a city in the Province of Cádiz, Spain * Sanlúcar de Guadiana, a village in the Province of Huelva, Spain * Sanlúcar la Mayor, a city in the Pro ...

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

Alan Pauls Alan Pauls (born 1959) is an Argentine writer, literary critic and screenwriter. Early life Pauls was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1959. He studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires. Career An early essay by Pauls on ''Betraye ...

, ''The Past'' *

Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...

, ''Five Black Ships: A Novel of the Discoverers'' * Carmen Posadas, ''Child's Play'' (with

) *

Julián Ríos Julián Ríos (born 11 March 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''. The original Visigothic name ''Alfonso'' suffered the phonetic change of the phoneme /f/ into the mute /h/ in the Early Middle Ages (around 9th Century), w ...

, ''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 (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which ...

, ''Journey to Portugal'' (with Amanda Hopkinson) * Lorenzo Silva, ''The Faint-Hearted Bolshevik'' (with Isabelle Kaufeler) * Dominique Sylvain">Lorenzo Silva">ith which ...

As translator

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