Victus: The Fall of Barcelona

The Translators

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator with some forty books to his name. His translations include fiction from Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and nonfiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé.

Thomas Bunstead was a British Centre for Literary Translation mentee in 2011–12, working with Margaret Jull Costa, and has since translated and co-translated several novels from the Spanish, including work by Eduardo Halfon, Yuri Herrera, and Enrique Vila-Matas. His translation of Aixa de la Cruz’s “True Milk” was selected for Dalkey Archive’s Best of European Fiction 2015.