Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator[1][2][3] working from French and Spanish into English. She graduated with a degree in Modern Languages & European Studies from the University of Bath[4] in 2007. She has translated over a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction.[5]
In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclán for her translation of Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo.[6][7] She has been awarded two PEN Translates Awards for her translations,[8] as well as the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for Literary Translation from The Southern Review, in 2023.[9]
In 2020, along with Tina Kover, she co-founded the YouTube channel Translators Aloud,[10][11] shining a spotlight on literary translators reading from their work.[12][13][14]
List of translated works
edit- 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 [15]
- 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 [16][17]
- Marvel Moreno – 'Tea in Augsburg' (Co-translated with Isabel Adey)
- Marvel Moreno – 'Self-Criticism' [18] (Co-translated with Isabel Adey)
- Margarita García Robayo – Fish Soup [19]
- 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'
References
edit- ^ Vassallo, Helen (10 December 2019). "Building Bridges interview series: Charlotte Coombe". Translating Women. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ "Wessex Translations | Blog: Women in Translation Month". Wessex Translations. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ "Spotlight on Literary Translator Charlotte Coombe – Intralingo". Intralingo. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Profile at institut-francais.org.uk
- ^ Vassallo, Helen (17 October 2022). Towards a Feminist Translator Studies: Intersectional Activism in Translation and Publishing. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-72895-8.
- ^ "Past winners". The Society of Authors.
- ^ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ "PEN Translates awards go to books from sixteen countries, in eleven languages". English Pen. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ "The Southern Review : Home". thesouthernreview.org. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ "Translators Aloud - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ "Translators Aloud – Translators reading translations". Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ Vassallo, Helen (26 October 2020). "REVIEW: Translators Aloud YouTube channel". Translating Women. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ The Career of a Literary Translator Today: Q&A with Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover, retrieved 28 February 2023
- ^ Borg, Claudine (14 October 2022). A Literary Translation in the Making: A Process-Oriented Perspective. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-72093-8.
- ^ "The Parable of the Bread, by Juan Villoro". World Literature Today. 18 August 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ Williams, Holly (12 July 2020). "Holiday Heart by Margarita García Robayo review – immigrant swansong". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ "Book extract: Holiday Heart by Margarita García Robayo translated by Charlotte Coombe". theartsdesk.com. 7 June 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- ^ "Plume Interview: Adey & Coombe". Project Plume. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ "The Masterful Margarita". Bookanista. 4 June 2018. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2021.