Charlotte Coombe

British literary translator

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

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

^ 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.