Sophie Hughes is the translator of over twenty books from Spanish by writers including Fernanda Melchor, Alia Trabucco Zerán and Enrique Vila-Matas. She has been nominated for the International Booker Prize four times, and in 2021 she won the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Her work has featured in the New York Times, The Paris Review, the Guardian, Granta, frieze and The White Review.