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Margaret Jull Costa

Author of The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy

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About the Author

Margaret Jull Costa has translated into the English more than 35 books, including Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago's "All the Names" & "The Tale of the Unknown Island", Antonio Perez Reverte's "The Flander's Panel", Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet" & Luisa Valenzuela's "Bedside Manners". She lives show more in London. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: M.J. Costa, margaretjullcosta, Margaret Jull Costa (tr.), Margaret Jull Costa Costa

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Blindness (1995) — Translator, some editions — 14,630 copies, 432 reviews
Veronika Decides to Die (1998) — Translator, some editions — 7,736 copies, 165 reviews
The Book of Disquiet (1982) — Translator, some editions — 6,231 copies, 92 reviews
Eleven Minutes (2003) — Translator, some editions — 5,831 copies, 98 reviews
The Zahir (2005) — Translator, some editions — 4,656 copies, 80 reviews
The Flanders Panel (1990) — Translator, some editions — 4,083 copies, 83 reviews
All the Names (1997) — Translator, some editions — 3,291 copies, 73 reviews
Seeing (2006) — Translator, some editions — 3,170 copies, 67 reviews
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) — Translator, some editions — 3,162 copies, 84 reviews
The Cave (2003) — Translator, some editions — 2,796 copies, 51 reviews
The Double (2002) — Translator, some editions — 2,757 copies, 63 reviews
The Fencing Master (1988) — Translator, some editions — 2,629 copies, 44 reviews
Dom Casmurro (1899) — Translator, some editions — 2,595 copies, 57 reviews
A Heart So White (1992) — Translator, some editions — 2,243 copies, 67 reviews
Cain (2009) — Translator, some editions — 1,805 copies, 83 reviews
The Elephant's Journey (2010) — Translator, some editions — 1,752 copies, 82 reviews
The Winner Stands Alone (2008) — Translator, some editions — 1,632 copies, 43 reviews
Aleph (2010) — Translator, some editions — 1,345 copies, 40 reviews
The Infatuations (2011) — Translator, some editions — 1,308 copies, 59 reviews
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (1994) — Translator, some editions — 1,307 copies, 48 reviews
The Maias (1956) — Translator, some editions; Afterword, some editions — 1,277 copies, 30 reviews
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear (2002) — Translator, some editions — 1,126 copies, 30 reviews
Adultery (2014) — Translator, some editions — 1,110 copies, 39 reviews
The Tale of the Unknown Island (1997) — Translator, some editions — 1,101 copies, 28 reviews
Manuscript Found in Accra (2013) — Translator, some editions — 998 copies, 37 reviews
All Souls (1989) — Translator, some editions — 991 copies, 27 reviews
The Crime of Father Amaro (1875) — Translator, some editions — 922 copies, 26 reviews
The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet (2003) — Translator, some editions — 801 copies, 25 reviews
Cousin Bazilio (1878) — Translator — 765 copies, 11 reviews
Obabakoak (1988) — Translator, some editions — 744 copies, 18 reviews
The City and the Mountains (1901) — Translator, some editions — 723 copies, 14 reviews
Small Memories (2009) — Translator, some editions — 625 copies, 21 reviews
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream (2002) — Translator, some editions — 614 copies, 19 reviews
Thus Bad Begins (2014) — Translator, some editions — 549 copies, 21 reviews
Berta Isla (2017) — Translator, some editions — 545 copies, 16 reviews
The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhuí (1951) — Translator, some editions — 535 copies, 6 reviews
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (2009) — Translator, some editions — 521 copies, 17 reviews
Requiem: A Hallucination (1991) — Translator, some editions — 513 copies, 12 reviews
Written Lives (1992) — Translator, some editions — 483 copies, 12 reviews
Dark Back of Time (1998) — Translator, some editions — 481 copies, 6 reviews
The Witness (1983) — Translator, some editions — 376 copies, 12 reviews
The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1907) — Editor, some editions — 326 copies, 4 reviews
Tomás Nevinson (2021) — Translator, some editions — 303 copies, 10 reviews
On the Edge (2013) — Translator, some editions — 297 copies, 16 reviews
The Accordionist's Son (2003) — Translator, some editions — 294 copies, 9 reviews
While the Women Are Sleeping (1990) — Translator, some editions — 247 copies, 12 reviews
Chronicle of the Murdered House (1959) — Translator, some editions — 228 copies, 8 reviews
The Lone Man (1993) — Translator, some editions — 193 copies, 5 reviews
Seven Houses in France (2009) — Translator, some editions — 177 copies, 12 reviews
Mac's Problem (2017) — Translator, some editions — 167 copies, 9 reviews
Spring & Summer Sonatas: The Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomín (1904) — Translator, some editions — 160 copies, 1 review
Diary of the Fall (2011) — Translator, some editions — 128 copies, 7 reviews
The Lone Woman (1996) — Translator, some editions — 121 copies, 5 reviews
The Sickness (2006) — Translator, some editions — 114 copies, 9 reviews
The Great Shadow (and Other Stories) (1915) — Translator, some editions — 99 copies, 1 review
The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro: Bilingual edition (2020) — Translator, some editions — 89 copies
The Migrant Painter of Birds (1998) — Translator, some editions; Translator, some editions — 89 copies, 1 review
Vampire in Love (2016) — Translator, some editions — 85 copies, 3 reviews
By the Rivers of Babylon (2010) — Translator, some editions — 74 copies, 1 review
The Crossing: A Story of East Timor (1997) — Translator, some editions — 66 copies, 6 reviews
Found in Translation (2018) — Translator, some editions — 63 copies
His Only Son: with Dona Berta (New York Review Books Classics) (2016) — Translator, some editions — 61 copies, 3 reviews
The Dedalus Book of Portuguese Fantasy (European Literary Fantasy Anthologies) (1994) — Translator, some editions; Translator — 53 copies, 1 review
Venice, An Interior (2016) — Translator, some editions — 40 copies, 1 review
The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos (2023) — Translator, some editions — 38 copies
The Word Tree (Dedalus Africa) (1997) — Translator, some editions — 33 copies, 2 reviews
Shola and the Lions (1995) — Translator, some editions — 31 copies, 1 review
What's in a Name (2017) — Translator, some editions — 29 copies
The Last Days of William Shakespeare: A Novel (1990) — Translator, some editions — 29 copies, 1 review
The Adventures of Shola (2014) — Translator, some editions — 11 copies, 1 review
The Paris Review No. 252, Summer 2025 (2025) — Translator — 1 copy

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