Julia Sanches

Julia Sanches was born in Brazil and grew up in Mexico, the US, Switzerland, Scotland and Catalonia. She translates from Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan into English, and has worked with Geovani Martins, Claudia Hernández, Dolores Reyes and Eva Baltasar, among others. She is a founding member of the Cedilla & Co. translators’ collective, and currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Fiction | The Online Edition

The Tupperware Party

Montserrat Roig

‘We’re going to go crazy today, Merche exclaimed and then let out an electric shriek.’

Fiction by Montserrat Roig, translated by Julia Sanches.

In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation

Julia Sanches & Mara Faye Lethem

‘There are times when I think I came to literary translation just so I could keep my many homes close to hand.’

Julia Sanches and Mara Faye Lethem on translating Catalan into English.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Dogs of Summer

Andrea Abreu

‘There was no one around that day, so we decided to put on our bikini tops for the ﬁrst time.’

An extract from Andrea Abreu’s debut novel. Translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches.

Fiction | Issue 155

The New Me

Andrea Abreu

‘Needy text messages did not mesh with my new personality.’

Fiction by Andrea Abreu, translated by Julia Sanches.

Fiction | Issue 154

Permafrost

Eva Baltasar

‘This never made sense to Roxanne, whose whole life was a treat.’

Translated from the Catalan by Julia Sanches.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Capitán

Magalí Etchebarne

‘A man, my mother once told me, is a small animal that looks immense.’

Fiction | The Online Edition

Thick Legs

Natalia Borges Polesso

‘Was soccer a sign? I don’t think so, nearly all the girls had boyfriends, except for Greice and Kelli, and I didn’t have one because I was a puta, as they used to say, I hooked up with everybody.’