{{short description|British translator and journalist|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''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.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.societyofauthors.org/Prizes/Translation-Prizes/Valle-Inclan/Past-winners| title = Premio Valle Inclán: Past Winners| date = April 10, 2020 | accessdate = October 14, 2020 | website = societyofauthors.org }}</ref> He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, the BBC World Service, ''The Times Literary Supplement'', and ''The Guardian''.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nick-caistor | title = The Guardian: Nick Caistor | date = March 6, 2020 | accessdate = October 14, 2020|newspaper = The Guardian }}</ref> He lives in Norwich, and is married to fellow translator Amanda Hopkinson, with whom he frequently collaborates in his translation work.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowships/nick-caistor/| title = Nick Caistor, Non-fiction writer, Translator| accessdate = October 16, 2014| publisher = Royal Literary Fund}}</ref>
==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)
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