Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a London-based translator and editor. Working from Portuguese and French, she has translated Natalia Borges Polesso, João Gilberto Noll, Victor Heringer, and Sheyla Smanioto; Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Leïla Slimani, Noémi Lefebvre, Mona Chollet, Josephine Baker, and Colette Fellous, among others. 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. She was the joint winner of the 2022 French-American Foundation prize for nonfiction translation for her work on anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s book In the Eye of the Wild.