Peter Bush

Peter Bush is an English literary translator, born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in 1946. He translates into English from Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese and French, and has brought across work by Josep Pla, Mercè Rodoreda, Joan Sales, Quim Monzó, Teresa Solana, Juan Goytisolo and Fernando de Rojas.

After teaching in London schools he lectured at Middlesex University, where he became Professor of Literary Translation in 1997, and from 1998 to 2003 he directed the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia. He is a winner of the Ramon Llull Prize for literary translation.