Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator [1] [2] [3] working from French, Spanish and Catalan 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]