Margaret Jull Costa

Margaret Jull Costa has been a translator for over thirty years and has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers, including novelists Javier Marías, José Saramago, Bernardo Atxaga, Maria Judite de Carvalho and Eça de Queirós, as well as poets Fernando Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, and Ana Luísa Amaral. Her work has brought her many prizes, among them, in 1997, the International IMPAC Literary Award, for A Heart So White by Javier Marías; in 2008, the PEN Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize and the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and in 2018, the Premio Valle-Inclán for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes.