Elizabeth Bryer

Elizabeth Bryer is the author of From Here On, Monsters (Picador), which was joint winner of the 2020 Norma K Hemming award. She is also a translator from Spanish, including of novels by María José Ferrada, Aleksandra Lun, José Luis de Juan and Claudia Salazar Jiménez. She was awarded the 2025 Translation Prize from the NSW Literary Awards for her translation of Eduardo Sangarcía's The Trial of Anna Thalberg. Her short fiction, essays and translations have been published widely, most recently in Granta, Literary Hub, Everyday I Change Your Name and Southwest Review.

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Works By Elizabeth Bryer

This Changes Everything
In the wake of winning the 2025 NSW Translation Prize, Elizabeth Bryer converses with fellow translator Sarah Timmer Harvey on the impact of material conditions on one’s practice and on translation as a radical and radically personal act.
3 Oct. 2025
Plan B
Maybe you already know that working minimally feels feasible when there is work, when you have, or can return to, a paid job, when you are fairly confident that, frightening though the thought might be, if you lost your paid job you could find ano...
15 Aug. 2021
The Same Tree, The Same Iceberg
28 Mar. 2017
In This Fruitful Darkness: Signs Preceding the End of the World
‘Yuri Herrera’s novella Señales que precederán al fin del mundo is a special case: a work for which translation is a logical extension of its rationale. What I mean is this: when a work is so concerned with arduous journeys, borders, transcultural...
29 Mar. 2016

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Elizabeth Bryer

Works By Elizabeth Bryer

This Changes Everything

Plan B

The Same Tree, The Same Iceberg

In This Fruitful Darkness: Signs Preceding the End of the World