Julia Sanches

Julia Sanches has translated close to 30 books into English from Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan

She has translated works by Geovani Martins, Munir Hachemi and Monsterrat Roig, and has been nominated for the International Booker Prize for three consecutive years. Her translations of Boulder by Eva Baltasar and Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener were respectively shortlisted and longlisted in 2023 and 2024. In 2025 she was longlisted for her co-translation of Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda. She is a founding member of the Cedilla & Co. translators’ collective. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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A blisteringly urgent collection of interconnected stories about contemporary Mexican women. Extremely funny but deadly serious, it absolutely bangs from the first page to the last

— The 2025 judges on Reservoir Bitches

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An extract from Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda, translated by Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary

Life’s a bitch. That’s why you’ve got to rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth. A linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico

Image of Reservoir Bitches book cover, author and translators

An interview with Dahlia de la Cerda, Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary, author and translators of Reservoir Bitches

With Reservoir Bitches longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, we spoke to its author and translators about Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes and their favourite Spanish-language authors

Front cover of Undiscovered with images of the author and translator.

A Q&A with Gabriela Wiener and Julia Sanches, author and translator of Undiscovered

With Undiscovered longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, we spoke to its author and translator about their experience of working on the novel together – and their favourite books

Reading guide: Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches

A provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one Peruvian woman’s ties to both colonised and coloniser

An extract from Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches

Gabriela Wiener’s provocative, irreverent autobiographical novel reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one Peruvian woman’s family ties to both colonised and coloniser

Julia Sanches interview: 'The mythical English reader is just that, a myth'

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, Julia Sanches talks about the inspiration behind Boulder in an exclusive interview

Eva Baltasar interview: 'I wrote three versions of Boulder and deleted two'

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, Eva Baltasar talks about the inspiration behind Boulder in an exclusive interview

An extract from Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches

Read an extract from Eva Baltasar’s short, brittle novel, Boulder, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2023

Reading guide: Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches

Discover our reading guide for Boulder, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, a love story between two women with very different visions of motherhood

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All nominated books

Reservoir Bitches

Life’s a bitch. That’s why you’ve got to rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth. A linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico

By Dahlia de la Cerda

Translated by Julia Sanches Heather Cleary

Boulder

Eva Baltasar demonstrates her pre-eminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world - in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga. 

By Eva Baltasar

Translated by Julia Sanches

Undiscovered

A provocative, irreverent autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one Peruvian woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniser

By Gabriela Wiener

Translated by Julia Sanches

Julia Sanches

Read more on Julia Sanches

An extract from Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda, translated by Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary

An interview with Dahlia de la Cerda, Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary, author and translators of Reservoir Bitches

A Q&A with Gabriela Wiener and Julia Sanches, author and translator of Undiscovered

Reading guide: Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches

An extract from Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches

Julia Sanches interview: 'The mythical English reader is just that, a myth'

Eva Baltasar interview: 'I wrote three versions of Boulder and deleted two'

An extract from Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches

Reading guide: Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches

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All nominated books

Reservoir Bitches

Boulder

Undiscovered

Features

The 2025 longlistees on the book that made them fall in love with reading

An interview with Dahlia de la Cerda, Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary, author and translators of Reservoir Bitches

Eight of the best Booker-nominated books written by poets

A Q&A with Gabriela Wiener and Julia Sanches, author and translator of Undiscovered

The best translated fiction, according to the International Booker Prize 2024 nominees

An extract from Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches

Reading guide: Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches

International Booker Prize 2023: take our shortlist trivia quiz

Reading guide: Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches

Julia Sanches interview: 'The mythical English reader is just that, a myth'

Eva Baltasar interview: 'I wrote three versions of Boulder and deleted two'

An extract from Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches

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