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Julia Sanches

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Julia Sanches

Julia Sanches is a translator of Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Catalan. Among her book-length translations are Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques; Permafrost by Eva Baltasar; Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández; and What Are the Blind Men Dreaming? by Noemi Jaffe. Her shorter translations have appeared in Suelta, the Washington Review, Asymptote, Two Lines, Granta, Tin House, Words Without Borders, and Revista Machado, among others. A former literary agent, she is cofounder of the collective Cedilla & Co.

Articles by Julia Sanches

A hand hovering over a pill organizer filled with multicolored pills

Photo by Laurynas Mereckas on Unsplash

Boulder

By Eva Baltasar

In this excerpt from Eva Baltasar's novel of the same name, which is shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize, the narrator unwillingly goes along with her partner's plans for assisted reproduction.

Translated from Catalan by Julia Sanches

Slash and Burn

By Claudia Hernández

Salvadoran author Claudia Hernández's first novel, Slash and Burn, is out this week with And Other Stories. Translated by Julia Sanches, the book follows several women through…

Translated by Julia Sanches

Özdamar’s Tongue

By Mariana Oliver

Özdamar knew that arriving in a country with no return ticket meant voluntarily surrendering to an indeterminate foreignness.

Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches

Sun and Slang: On Translating Geovani Martins’s “The Sun on My Head”

By Julia Sanches

I slept poorly while translating Geovani Martins’s O sol na cabeça, waking up repeatedly in the wee hours of the night, a solution to a thorny problem on the tip of my tongue, alarm…

Searching for Light

The light retires to the lamp / and suddenly all is dark again

Translated from Portuguese by Julia Sanches

The Forest of Midwives

Sculpted from the blood of mothers and the water of children, their hands birth a piece of Brazil.

Translated from Portuguese by Julia Sanches

Fifteen Days

By Claudia Hernández

They'd take the girls to the hills for three or five days.

Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches

From “What are the Blind Men Dreaming?”

The compassionate understand pain, but pain cannot be understood; those who suffer understand nothing.

Translated from Portuguese and Serbian by Julia Sanches & Ellen Elias-Bursać