Conversations on the Future of Translation: Completism, Retranslations, and Discovering New Writers: A Conversation with Margaret Jull Costa

Abstract

Margaret Jull Costa is one of the most accomplished and decorated translators currently at work. A translator for over thirty years, she debuted with a translation of The Hero of the Big House, by Álvaro Pombo, and she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2014. She has received over a dozen major translation prizes and has translated works by Javier Marías, Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, Bernardo Atxaga, and many others.