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Sophie Hughes
Sophie Hughes was born in Chertsey, UK, in June 1986.
She has translated novels by several contemporary Latin American and Spanish authors, including Best Translated Book Award 2017 finalist Laia Jufresa’s Umami. Her translations, reviews and essays have been published in The Guardian, The White Review, Times Literary Supplement. She has been the recipient of a British Centre for Literary Translation mentorship and residency, a PEN Heim Literary Translation grant, and in 2018 she was shortlisted for an Arts Foundation 25th Anniversary Fellowship. She lives in Birmingham.
- By
- Alia Trabucco Zeran
- Translated by
- Sophie Hughes
- Published by
- And Other Stories
Intense, intelligent and extraordinarily sensitive, Alia Trabucco Zerán’s remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of generational trauma. Translated by Sophie Hughes.
- By
- Fernanda Melchor
- Translated by
- Sophie Hughes
- Published by
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
Fernanda Melchor’s formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons, written with a brutal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling. Translated by Sophie Hughes.
- By
- Enrique Vila-Matas
- Translated by
- Margaret Jull Costa Sophie Hughes
- Published by
- Harvill Secker
A masterpiece of metafiction, Mac and His Problem is Enrique Vila-Matas’s testament to the power and playfulness of great literature. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Sophie Hughes.
