Charlotte Coombe Explained

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]}

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 ^[14]
• 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 ^{[15] [16]}
• Marvel Moreno – 'Tea in Augsburg' (Co-translated with Isabel Adey)
• Marvel Moreno – 'Self-Criticism' ^[17] (Co-translated with Isabel Adey)
• Margarita García Robayo – Fish Soup ^[18]
• 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'

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vassallo. Helen. 2019-12-10. Building Bridges interview series: Charlotte Coombe. 2021-01-06. Translating Women. en-US.
2. Web site: Wessex Translations Blog: Women in Translation Month. 2021-01-06. Wessex Translations. en.
3. News: 2015-09-10. Spotlight on Literary Translator Charlotte Coombe – Intralingo. Intralingo. 2018-08-02.
4. https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/translators/2017/07/24/charlotte-coombe/ Profile at institut-francais.org.uk
5. Book: Vassallo, Helen . Towards a Feminist Translator Studies: Intersectional Activism in Translation and Publishing . 2022-10-17 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-000-72895-8 . en.
6. Web site: Past winners. The Society of Authors.
7. Web site: 2018-08-14 . Los Angeles Review of Books . 2023-02-28 . Los Angeles Review of Books . en.
8. Web site: PEN Translates awards go to books from sixteen countries, in eleven languages . 2023-02-28 . English Pen . en-GB.
9. Web site: The Southern Review : Home . 2023-02-28 . thesouthernreview.org.
10. Web site: Translators Aloud - YouTube. 2021-01-06. www.youtube.com.
11. Web site: Translators Aloud – Translators reading translations . 2023-02-28 . en-US.
12. Web site: Vassallo. Helen. 2020-10-26. REVIEW: Translators Aloud YouTube channel. 2021-01-06. Translating Women. en-US.
13. Book: Borg, Claudine . A Literary Translation in the Making: A Process-Oriented Perspective . 2022-10-14 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-000-72093-8 . en.
14. Web site: 2020-08-18. The Parable of the Bread, by Juan Villoro. 2021-01-06. World Literature Today. en.
15. News: Williams . Holly . 2020-07-12 . Holiday Heart by Margarita García Robayo review – immigrant swansong . en-GB . The Observer . 2023-02-28 . 0029-7712.
16. Web site: 2020-06-07 . Book extract: Holiday Heart by Margarita García Robayo translated by Charlotte Coombe . 2023-02-28 . theartsdesk.com . en.
17. Web site: Plume Interview: Adey & Coombe. 2021-01-06. Project Plume. en-GB.
18. Web site: 2018-06-04. The Masterful Margarita. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180625130245/http://bookanista.com:80/margarita/ . 2018-06-25 . 2021-01-06. Bookanista. en-US.