Jonathan Dunne

Jonathan Dunne is a graduate in Classics from Oxford University. He has translated more than seventy books from the Bulgarian, Catalan, Galician and Spanish languages for publishing houses such as Penguin Random House, New Directions and Shearsman Books. Writers he has translated include Ledicia Costas, Tsvetanka Elenkova, Agustín Fernández Paz, Carme Riera, Manuel Rivas and Enrique Vila-Matas. He has edited and translated various anthologies of Bulgarian and Galician literature. He has also written four books on the spiritual content of language: “The DNA of the English Language” (2007), an introduction to word connections; “The Life of a Translator” (2013), which looks at coincidence in translation; “Stones Of Ithaca” (2019), a study of the relationship between language and the environment; and “Seven Brief Lessons on Language” (2023), a simple but in-depth view of the spiritual side to language. More information can be found on his website: www.stonesofithaca.com.