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Peter Bush
Peter Bush has translated many Catalan, Spanish and Latin American writers including Carmen Boullosa, Chico Buarque, Juan Carlos Onetti, Najat El Hachmi, Leonardo Padura Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Teresa Solana, Joan Sales, and Mercè Rodoreda. He received the Valle-Inclán Prize for Juan Goytisolo’s The Marx Family Saga and Exiled from Almost Everywhere, the Calouste Gulbenkian Prize for Equator, and the Ramon Llull Prize for Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook. The Spanish government awarded him the Cross of the Order of Civil Merit in 2012 and the Generalitat, the St George’s Cross in 2015, for his translation and promotion of Spanish and Catalan literature respectively. His recent translations are Barcelona Tales (OUP), Leonardo Padura’s Grab a Snake by the Tail (Bitter Lemon) and Quim Monzo's Why,Why,Why? (Open Letter).