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, Raquel Delgado, Cristina Araújo Gámir, and Lucía Alba Martínez. My translation of Anne Sénès’ Double Room was published with Orenda Books in June 2025, and most recently, my co-translation of Lara Moreno’s The City was published with Open Letter Books in May 2026.
My work has been published in journals including Latin American Literature Today, Asymptote, minor literature[s], and The Los Angeles Review, and has been supported by Acción Cultural Española, ProHelvetia, and The Society of Authors.
At the start of my career I worked for several years as Editorial Assistant for The European Literature Network and Fum d’Estampa Press where I gained an in-depth knowledge of both the book and magazine publishing world. I have also worked 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
‘The strength of Moreno’s writing, seamlessly translated, is her ability to weigh each character’s hope against their suffering.’ – Jonathan Han, Asymptote
‘The writing style sets The City apart from other literary fiction of similar subject matter. Instead of being mainly internal and contemplative, it manages to make the everyday thoughts and struggles of those characters visceral. It is a feat that a novel in translation is able to sustain such a style successfully. It speaks to the talent of the translators and author that the sentences were able to remain coherent even when translated out of the original language.’ – Danielle Bartholet, Full Stop
