Charlotte Coombe

Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator  working from French and Spanish into English. She graduated with a degree in Modern Languages & European Studies from the University of Bath in 2007. She has translated over a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction.

In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclán for her translation of Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo. She has been awarded two PEN Translates Awards for her translations, as well as the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for Literary Translation from The Southern Review, in 2023.

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

List of translated works

 * Vincent Doumeizel – The Seaweed Revolution
 * Marvel Moreno December Breeze (co-translated with Isabel Adey)
 * Antonio Diaz Oliva – 'Mrs. Gonçalves and the Lives of Others'
 * Aitor Romero Ortega – 'Bridges of Bosnia'
 * Victor Vegas – 'She Dances Alone'
 * Jimena González - 'City' in Modern Poetry in Translation, Issue no. 1 Spring, 2021
 * Juan Villoro – 'The Parable of the Bread' in the anthology: And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again
 * Mario Vargas Llosa – Speech for the opening of the 20th international literature festival berlin
 * Eduardo Berti – 'Imagined Lands'
 * Ricardo Romero –  ' Pandemic Diary '
 * Margarita García Robayo – Holiday Heart
 * Marvel Moreno – 'Tea in Augsburg' (Co-translated with Isabel Adey)
 * Marvel Moreno – 'Self-Criticism' (Co-translated with Isabel Adey)
 * Margarita García Robayo – Fish Soup
 * Eduardo Berti – The Imagined Land
 * Ricardo Romero – The President's Room
 * Abnousse Shalmani – Khomeini, Sade and Me
 * Asha Miró and Anna Soler-Pont – Traces of Sandalwood
 * Marc De Gouvenain – The Solomon Islands Witness
 * Rosamaría Roffiel – 'These Are Things I Only Tell Myself'
 * Edgardo Nuñez Caballero – 'Landscapes With Beasts'
 * Santiago Roncagliolo – 'The Well'