Peter Bush (translator)

Peter R. Bush (born 1946) is an English literary translator. He has translated works from Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan to English, including the work of Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Goytisolo and Fernando de Rojas.

Life

Peter Bush was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire.[1] 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.[2] He studied French and Spanish at Cambridge University before gaining a PhD in Spanish history and fiction from Oxford University. After teaching in London schools he became Professor of Literary Translation at Middlesex University. He was subsequently Professor of Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, also directing the British Centre for Literary Translation there.[3] He now lives in Barcelona.[1]

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."[2]

He was awarded the 2009 Calouste Gulbenkian Portuguese Translation Prize for his translation of Equator by Miguel Sousa Tavares.[3]

Works

Translations

From Spanish
From Portuguese
From Catalan

Other

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peter Bush - Words Without Borders
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Carol Maier, An Interview With Peter Bush, Translation Review Vol. 53.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Peter Bush to Discuss Translation of Spanish Classic
  4. ↑ Review by Alberto Manguel, The Guardian, 14 May 2011. Review by Annabella Massey, Cadaverine Magazine
  5. ↑ Review by Michael Eaude, The Independent, 21 September 2007
  6. ↑ Book Launch 'Uncertain Glory: Paul Preston in conversation with Peter Bush LSE European Institute 14 November 2014

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