Charlotte Coombe


Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator working from French, Spanish and Catalan 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 fiction and non-fiction works

  • Anna Pazos –
  • Zoé Derleyn –
  • Frédéric Laffont
  • Rosa Ribas –
  • Silvia Arazi –
  • Vincent Doumeizel –
  • Marvel Moreno '
  • Antonio Diaz Oliva
  • Aitor Romero Ortega –
  • Victor Vegas –
  • Jimena González -
  • Juan Villoro – 'The Parable of the Bread' in the anthology:
  • Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Eduardo Berti –
  • Ricardo Romero – '
  • Margarita García Robayo – '
  • Marvel Moreno –
  • Marvel Moreno –
  • Margarita García Robayo – '
  • Eduardo Berti – '
  • Ricardo Romero – '
  • Abnousse Shalmani – '
  • Asha Miró and Anna Soler-Pont
  • Marc De Gouvenain – The Solomon Islands Witness
  • Rosamaría Roffiel –
  • Edgardo Nuñez Caballero –
  • Santiago Roncagliolo –