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Thomas Bunstead

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Contributor

Thomas Bunstead

United Kingdom

Thomas Bunstead has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Agustín Fernández Mallo, María Gainza and Enrique Vila-Matas, and is twice a winner of PEN Translates Awards. His own writing has appeared in publications such as Brixton Review of Books, LitHub and The Paris Review. He is a 2020-2022 Royal Literary Fellow, teaching at Swansea University.

Articles by Thomas Bunstead

Mexico Interrupted

By Thomas Bunstead & Sophie Hughes

There’s an obvious irony in trying to promote diverse Mexican literatures by means of a handful of texts.

The Savage Editors

By Agustín Goenaga

You have to be a savage to play this role. It’s essential.

Translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead

Young Aurora and the Captive Child

Young Aurora, said the butcher, wasn't Miss Aurora at all.

Translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead

Multilingual

The Last Day on Earth

By Juan Eduardo Zúñiga

The murmuring on the far side of the barrio was neverending as the heavy machinery demolished homes.

Translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead

Multilingual

The Damage Done

By Thomas Bunstead

Basque writer Willy Uribe is now into his twelfth day of a hunger strike in protest against the incarceration of reformed heroin addict David Reboredo. This is the latest in a number of cases demonstrating…

from “Nanga”

I was surprised when he was the first one who came and tried to blackmail me.

Translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead

The Heart’s Secret Moves

By Yuri Herrera

That was when Pedro went in, clamped his hand over the cop’s mouth, and got him in a neck lock.

Translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead

Multilingual