Peter Bush is a freelance literary translator based in Barcelona. Recent translations include Exiled From Almost Everywhere by Juan Goytisolo, Tyrant Banderas by Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Sketches of Spain: Impressions and Landscapes by Federico García Lorca from the Spanish, The Body Hunter by Najat El Hachmi, The Sound of One Hand Killing by Teresa Solana, Russian Stories by Francesc Serés and In Diamond Square by Mercè Rodoreda from the Catalan.

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He was previously Professor of Literary Translation and Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia where he founded the International Literary Translation Summer School and the journal, In Other Words. He edited (with Susan Bassnett) The Translator as Writer, a volume of essays by leading translators. He is currently translating two contemporary Catalan classics: The Gray Notebook by Josep Pla and Uncertain Glory by Joan Sales.



He has win twice the Valle-Inclan Prize among others awards.