Alice Banks
Literary Translator
Alice Banks is a literary translator working from Spanish and French into English.
I’m Alice and I’m a literary translator working from Spanish and French into English. I also work with creative and academic texts, and have experience in proofreading and copy editing.
After graduating from the MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2020, I moved to Madrid, the city I now call home.
I have translated writers such as Elizabeth Duval, Ali Zamir, Almudena Grandes, Lara Moreno, Raquel Delgado, Cristina Araújo Gámir, and Lucía Alba Martínez. My latest full length translation of Anne Sénès’ Double Room was published with Orenda Books in June 2025, and a co-translation of Lara Moreno’s The City, will be published with Open Letter Books in mid 2026.
My work has been published in journals including Latin American Literature Today, Asymptote, minor literature[s], and The Los Angeles Review. At the start of my career in the translation and publishing world, I also worked as Editorial Assistant for The European Literature Network and Fum d’Estampa Press, and as an in-house translator for Hablemos, escritoras.
Services
As well as literary, creative, and academic translation from French and Spanish into English, I also offer proofreading and copy editing services, and reader’s reports for French and Spanish language books.
“In Zamir’s French, the language features rare words and is linguistically fascinating, traits that Alice Banks’ superb translation also possesses.”
Areeb Ahmad, Asymptote
“The translation by Alice Banks was outstanding and read very easily and naturally.” – Alan Teder
“Fluently translated by Alice Banks…” – Catherine Taylor, The Irish Times
“Alice Banks’ translation captures all the fragility and musicality of this splendid work.” – Mary Picken
Upcoming Publications
The City, Lara Moreno, translated by Alice Banks and Katie Whittemore
May 2026 — Open Letter Books
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