Thomas Bunstead was born in London in 1982 and lives in Pembrokeshire, west Wales. He has translated leading Spanish-language writers, including Maria Gainza and Enrique Vila-Matas, and won various awards, including an O. Henry Prize and the McGinnis-Ritchie Award in 2022 for his translation of “The Mad People of Paris” by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón.
His own writing has appeared in publications such as The Brixton Review of Books, LitHub, and TheParis Review, and he is a Royal Literary Fellow at Swansea University (2022–2024). He received the 2024 Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation for his translation of The Book of All Loves by Agustín Fernández Mallo (Fitzcarraldo Editions).
