Sophie
Lewis
Sophie Lewis is a London-born translator and editor. Working from French and Portuguese, she has translated books by Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Leïla Slimani, Noémi Lefebvre, Nastassja Martin and Annie Ernaux, also Sheyla Smanioto, Victor Heringer and Patrícia Melo, among others. Recent edits include books by Jeferson Tenório, Lucrecia Zappi and Fábio Zuker. With Gitanjali Patel, she co-founded the Shadow Heroes translation workshops enterprise. Lewis’s translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. In 2022, she won the French-American Foundation’s prize for non-fiction translation.
Sophie Lewis is a London-born translator and editor. Working from French and Portuguese, she has translated books by Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Leïla Slimani, Noémi Lefebvre, Nastassja Martin and Annie Ernaux, also Sheyla Smanioto, Victor Heringer and Patrícia Melo, among others. Recent edits include books by Jeferson Tenório, Lucrecia Zappi and Fábio Zuker. With Gitanjali Patel, she co-founded the Shadow Heroes translation workshops enterprise. Lewis’s translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. In 2022, she won the French-American Foundation’s prize for non-fiction translation.
