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Peter Bush
Peter Bush. After a five-year stint as Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation and Professor of Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, Peter Bush now works in Barcelona as a freelance translator. He was awarded the 2012 Valle-Inclán Prize for his translation of Exiled from Almost Everywhere by Juan Goytisolo. He edited (with Susan Bassnett) The Translator as Writer and put together the anthology of Cuban stories The Voice of the Turtle. Some of his most recent projects include Adolfo García Ortega's The Birthday Buyer, Najat El Hachmi’s The Body Hunter, Quim Monzó’s A Thousand Morons, Teresa Solana’s Crazy Tales of Blood and Guts, Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook, Lorca’s Sketches of Spain, Valle-Inclán’s Tyrant Banderas, and Russian Stories by Francesc Serés.