The International Booker Prize is the most prestigious global award for fiction translated into English, with the 2025 longlist released just last week.
Sophie Hughes is a literary translator, translating from Spanish and Italian into English.
She's just picked up her record-breaking fifth nomination for the International Booker - more than any other single translator - for translating Italian writer Vincenzo Latronico's novel Perfection.
Sophie Hughes joins Emile Donovan from Trieste in Italy to discuss the art of translation.
Translator Sophie Hughes received her record-breaking fifth nomination for the International Booker Prize for 'Perfection', a novel originally written in Italian by Vincenzo Latronico. Photo: Supplied
