Born in Surrey, Sophie Hughes is a literary translator from Spanish and Italian

Hughes is the translator of more than 20 novels by authors such as Fernanda Melchor, Alia Trabucco Zerán and Enrique Vila-Matas. She has been shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and the Valle Inclán Prize, and in 2021 she was awarded the Queen Sofía Translation Prize. Her translations have been longlisted or shortlisted for the International Booker Prize five times, most recently her translation of Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection (shortlisted in 2025). 

Her translations and writing have been published in McSweeney’s, the Guardian, The Paris Review, The White Review, Frieze and the New York Times. Hughes has also worked with the Stephen Spender Trust promoting translation in schools and is the co-editor of the anthology Europa28: Writing by Women on the Future of Europe, published in 2020 in collaboration with Hay Festival. She lives in Trieste. 

Sophie Hughes

An astute, cringe-making and often laugh-out-loud funny portrait of everyday privilege and modern aspirations

— The 2025 judges on Perfection

All nominated books

Hurricane Season

Translated by Sophie Hughes

Paradais

Translated by Sophie Hughes