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. 

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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Boulder

Translated by Julia Sanches

Black, yellow, orange, pink and purple book cover of Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener showing a broken aztec statue.

Translated by Julia Sanches