Alice Banks is a translator from French and Spanish based in Madrid. After graduating from the MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, she made the move to Spain where she works as a translator and a publisher at Fum d’Estampa Press.

Alice joined the European Literature Network at the end of 2020 as an Editorial Assistant, and in 2021, she began writing her blog La Española, a monthly column for the European Literature Network that focuses on Spain’s literary landscape.

She has translated authors such as Ali Zamir, Elizabeth Duval, Almudena Grandes and Cristina Araújo Gámir and is currently working on a co-translation of Lara Moreno’s latest novel, La ciudad, with Katie Whittemore (forthcoming with Open Letter). Her translation from the French of Anne Sénès’ Chambre double, is published in June 2025 with Orenda Books.