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Peter R. Bush (born 1946) is an English literary translator. He has translated works from Catalan, French, Spanish and Portuguese to English, including the work of Josep Pla, Joan Sales and Merce Rodoreda. Life and career Peter Bush was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire. His father, from a large rural working-class family, was a print worker and trade unionist; his mother grew up in an urban working-class family in Sheffield. He studied French and Spanish at Cambridge University before gaining a DPhil in Spanish history and fiction from Oxford University. Though Bush translated various Marxist economic and political analyses between 1967 and 1972, since then he has only translated literary texts. He has spoken of the crucial importance in his life of translating Juan Goytisolo: "I suppose my first Goytisolo translations brought something of a decisive change in my life. The translation of his work has been inseparable from the way my life has developed." Bush has been active not only as a literary translator, but also in developing literary translation as an academic discipline – by working in the academic world; serving in key literary translation organisations; serving on the editorial boards of literary translation publications; and organising international events and projects. After teaching in London schools he joined Middlesex University where he was Associate Senior Lecturer in Spanish (1993–1995), Reader in Literary Translation (1995–1997) and Professor of Literary Translation (1997–1998). He then moved to the University of East Anglia, where he was Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) (1998–2003), and Professor of Literary Translation at the School of English and American Studies. He has been a Visiting Professor at University of São Paulo (1996), Boston University (1996, 1999) and Beijing University (2001). Bush has held key positions in important literary translation organisations: Literary Translation Committee (Chair); International Translators Federation (Vice-President, 1996–2003); American Literary Translators Association (board of directors, 1999–2002); Committee for Literary Translation in Higher Education (Convenor, 1993–1999); In Other Words (Executive Committee, Founder and editor, 1995–2003); The European Network of Literary Translation Centres (RECIT) (2000–2003). Bush has also served on several editorial boards: Mediterraneans, a journal of literature, culture and politics (Paris), published by The Mediterranean Study Group (since 1993); Middlesex University Press (1996–2001); The Encyclopaedia of Literary Translation, Fitzroy Dearbourne (1997–2000); Pretexts, Pen & Ink, University of East Anglia (2002–2004); The Massachusetts Review (since 2014). Awards and honours 2015 Awarded the La Creu de Sant Jordi, most distinguished award given by the Generalitat of Catalonia, for the translation and promotion of Catalan literature 2015 His translation of The Gray Notebook by Josep Pla was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN USA Translated Fiction Award 2014 Awarded the Premi Ramon Llull for Literary Translation from Catalan, for his translation of The Gray Notebook by Josep Pla 2014 His translation of The Sound of One Hand Killing by Teresa Solana was shortlisted for the 2014 Goldboro Last Laugh Award 2014 His translation of Run or Die by Kilian Jornet was shortlisted for the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2014 His translation of Uncertain Glory by Joan Sales was named one of the Ten Best Works of Fiction for 2014 by The Economist magazine. 2012 Awarded the 2012 Premio Valle-Inclán for his translation of Exiled from Almost Everywhere by Juan Goytisolo 2012 His translation of Still Life No.41 by Teresa Solana was short-listed for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by the American Association of Crime Writers 2011 Received the Cruz de Oficial, Orden del Mérito Civil, awarded by King Juan Carlos of Spain, for contribution to the creation of cultural dialogue between UK and Spain 2009 Awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian Portuguese Translation Prize for his translation of Equator by Miguel Sousa Tavares. 1997 Awarded the Premio Valle-Inclán for his translation of The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo 1994 Received the Outstanding Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association for his translation of The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda Works Translations From Catalan Joan Cases: Naked – Black Beach Catalan Drama (Parthian Press, 2009). Najat El Hachmi: The Last Patriarch (Serpent's Tail, 2010). Najat El Hachmi: The Body Hunter (Serpent's Tail, 2013) Kilian Jornet: Run or Die (Velo Books, 2013) Empar Moliner: I Love You When I'm Drunk (Comma Productions, 2008). Quim Monzó: The Enormity of the Tragedy (Peter Owen Ltd, 2008). Quim Monzó: Guadalajara (Open Letter, 2011). Quim Monzó: A Thousand Morons (Open Letter, 2012). Josep Pla: Life Embitters (Archipelago, 2014) Josep Pla: The Gray Notebook (NYRB, 2014) Joan Sales: Uncertain glory (MacLehose Press, London, 2014). Joan Sales: Winds of the Night (MacLehose Press) Francesc Serés: Russian Stories (MacLehose PRess) Teresa Solana: A Shortcut to Paradise Teresa Solana: A not so perfect crime (Bitter Lemon Press, London, 2008) Teresa Solana: The Sound of One Hand Killing (Bitter Lemon, 2013) Emili Teixidor: Black Bread (Biblioasis, 2016) Jordi Puntí: Messi: Lessons in Style (Short Books, 2019) From French Alain Badiou: In Praise of Love (Serpent's Tail, 2012; The New Press, USA) Monica Waitzfelder: L'Oreal Took My Home, The secrets of a theft (Arcadia, 2006). From Spanish Pedro Almodóvar: The flower of my secret (Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1996). Nuria Amat:Queen Cocaine (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 2005). Jorge Carrión: Bookshops (The MacLehose Press, 2016). Daniel Chavarria: Tango for a Torturer (Serpent's Tail, 2006). Pedro Antonio de Alarcón: The Three-Cornered Hat (Hesperus Press, 2004). Fernando de Rojas: Celestina (Dedalus Books, 2009). Orlando Gonzalez Esteva: Enigma, Old Friend / The Drawings of Juan Soriano (Ave del Paraiso, Madrid, 2000), tr with Anne McLean. Juan Goytisolo: Quarantine (1994). Juan Goytisolo: The Marx family saga (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1999). Juan Goytisolo: The garden of secrets (Serpent's Tail, London, 2000). Juan Goytisolo: Realms of Strife (Quartet/North Point Press; 2nd ed. Verso, 2000). Juan Goytisolo: Landscapes of war: from Sarajevo to Chechnya (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 2000). Juan Goytisolo: Forbidden territory (Quartet/North Point Press; 2nd ed. Verso, 2000). Juan Goytisolo: The Blind Rider (Serpent's Tail, 2005). Juan Goytisolo: Cinema Eden Essays on the Muslim Mediterranean (Sickle Moon Press, 2005). Juan Goytisolo: A cock-eyed comedy: starring friar Bugeo Montesino and other fairies of motley feather and fortune (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 2005). Juan Goytisolo: Juan the Landless (Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign, IL, 2009). 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