Julia Sanches is a literary translator from Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish into English.
Recent translations include Living Things by Munir Hachemi and Mammoth by Eva Baltasar, both finalists for the Cercador Prize; Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda (co-translated with Heather Cleary); and The Time of Cherries by the late Catalan author Montserrat Roig. Her work has been supported by multiple grants and residencies, including the National Endowment for the Arts, ArtOmi, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the PEN Heim, and she has been longlisted and shortlisted for several prizes, among them the International Booker, the National Translation Award, and the PEN Translation Award, which she won in 2022 for Mariana Oliver’s Migratory Birds. Julia served as a judge of the 2024 National Book Award in the category of Translated Literature. Born in Brazil, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
