Francisco Torres Oliver

Who is Francisco Torres Oliver?

Francisco Torres Oliver is one of the most important Spanish translators. He studied “Filosofía y letras”, in the branch of Philosophy, at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

He specializes in Anglo-Saxon fantastic Literature. Along with the scholar Rafael Llopis, he is one of the greater impellers of the macabre and mystery literature in Castilian language, by which, he affirms, “are the young people who feel greater curiosity”. Torres Oliver has also translated to Castilian numerous texts of history, philosophy and anthropology.

He has translated, among others, the following authors: Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, H. P. Lovecraft, James Hogg, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malory, Arthur Machen, M. R. James and Vladimir Nabokov. Also he has translated some French works.

In 1991 he received the Premio nacional de traducción de literatura infantil y juvenil, by the book “Los perros de la Morrigan”, by the Irish author Pat O'Shea. Later, in 2001, he won the Premio Nacional a la Obra de un Traductor of Spain, in recognition to all his professional work.