Charlotte Coombe

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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. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclán for her translation of Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo.^[5] She has been awarded two PEN Translates Awards for her translations.

In 2020, along with Tina Kover, she co-founded the YouTube channel Translators Aloud,^[6] shining a spotlight on literary translators reading from their work.^[7]

List of translated works:

• Margarita García Robayo – Holiday Heart
• Margarita García Robayo – Fish Soup ^[8]
• Eduardo Berti – The Imagined Land
• Eduardo Berti – 'Imagined Lands'
• Ricardo Romero – The President's Room
• Ricardo Romero – 'Pandemic Diary'
• Abnousse Shalmani – Khomeini, Sade and Me
• and Anna Soler-Pont – Traces of Sandalwood
• – The Solomon Islands Witness
• Rosa María Roffiel – 'These Are Things I Only Tell Myself'
• – 'Landscapes With Beasts'
• Santiago Roncagliolo – 'The Well'
• Marvel Moreno – 'Tea in Augsburg' – 'Self-Criticism' ^[9] (Co-translated with Isabel Adey)
• Juan Villoro – 'The Parable of the Bread' in the anthology: And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again ^[10]
• Mario Vargas Llosa – Speech for the opening of the 20th international literature festival berlin

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