Nick Caistor

Nick Caistor (born 15 July 1946) is a British translator and journalist, best known for his translations of Spanish, French, and Portuguese literature. He is a past winner of the Valle-Inclán Prize for translation.^[1] He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, the BBC World Service, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Guardian.^[2] He lives in Norwich, and is married to fellow translator Amanda Hopkinson, with whom he frequently collaborates in his translation work.^[3]

As translator

• Luis Gutiérrez Maluenda, Music for the Dead
• César Aira, The Hare
• Roberto Arlt, The Seven Madmen
• Dulce Chacón, The Sleeping Voice
• Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym (with Amanda Hopkinson)
• Edgardo Cozarinsky, The Bride from Odessa
• Edgardo Cozarinsky, The Moldavian Pimp
• Rolo Diez, Tequila Blue
• Eugenio Dittborn, Mapa: Airmail Paintings (with Claudia Rousseau)
• Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper (with Peter Sis)
• Ildefonso Falcones, Cathedral of the Sea
• Rodolfo Fogwill, Malvinas Requiem
• Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett, Dog Day
• Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett, Prime Time Suspect
• Martín Kohan, Seconds Out
• Martín Kohan, School For Patriots
• Pedro Mairal, The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra
• Juan Marsé, Shanghai Nights
• Alberto Méndez, Blind Sunflowers
• Eduardo Mendoza, A Light Comedy
• Eduardo Mendoza, An Englishman in Madrid
• Eduardo Mendoza, The Year of the Flood
• Eduardo Mendoza, The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt
• Eduardo Mendoza, No Word from Gurb
• Andrés Neuman, Talking to Ourselves
• Andrés Neuman, Traveler of the Century (with Lorenza Garcia)
• Juan Carlos Onetti, The Shipyard
• Guillermo Orsi, No-one Loves a Policeman
• Guillermo Orsi, Holy City
• Hernando Calvo Ospina, ¡Salsa!: Havana Heat, Bronx Beat
• Isabel Allende, The Japanese Lover
• Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter
• Félix J. Palma, The Map of Time
• Félix J. Palma, The Map of the Sky
• Alan Pauls, The Past
• Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León, Five Black Ships: A Novel of the Discoverers
• Carmen Posadas, Child's Play (with Amanda Hopkinson)
• Julián Ríos, Procession of Shadows
• Alonso Salazar, Born to Die in Medellín (with introduction by Colin Harding)
• Carolina Sanín, The Children
• José Saramago, Journey to Portugal (with Amanda Hopkinson)
• Lorenzo Silva, The Faint-Hearted Bolshevik (with Isabelle Kaufeler)
• Dominique Sylvain, The Dark Angel: A Diesel and Jost Investigation
• Valérie Tasso, Insatiable: The Erotic Adventures Of A French Girl In Spain
• Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, The Buenos Aires Quintet (Pepe Carvalho Mysteries)
• Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Tattoo
• Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, The Man of My Life
• Pedro Zarraluki, The History of Silence

As author, co-author, or editor

• Mexico (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides) (with Maria Doulton and Petra Fischer)
• Che Guevara: A Life
• The Rainstick Pack (Sacred Earth Series)
• The World in View: Spain
• The World in View: Argentina
• The World in View: Israel
• Picking Up the Pieces: Corruption and Democracy in Peru (LAB Short Books) (with Susana Villaran)
• Columbus's Egg: New Latin American Stories on the Conquest (editor)
• Fidel Castro (Critical Lives)
• Buenos Aires
• Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary Companion (Cities of the Imagination)
• Chile in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture
• Argentina in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture
• The Faber Book of Contemporary Latin American Short Stories (editor)
• Nicaragua in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture (with Hazel Plunkett)