Jonathan Dunne is a literary translator based in Sofia, Bulgaria. His work has been nominated for major literary prizes such as the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Warwick Prize for Writing. He translates from Galician, Spanish, Catalan and Bulgarian, authors including Manuel Rivas, Enrique Vila-Matas and Tsvetanka Elenkova. He has written a study of word connections in English, The DNA of the English Language, believing that you only truly understand your own language when you have learnt to speak another. He co-directs the publishing house Small Stations Press.