Chris Andrews (translator)

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Chris Andrews FAHA (born 1962 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is an Australian translator, poet and literary critic. He studied and taught at the University of Melbourne before moving to the University of Western Sydney in 2009. In 2003 he published the first English translation of Roberto Bolaño’s work and won the Valle-Inclán Prize in 2005 for translating Distant Star. In 2014 he published a monograph on Bolaño and has translated other Spanish-language writers, including César Aira.

He has pursued French translations but has struggled to find publishers for his preferred projects. Andrews is also a published poet; he won the 2003 Wesley Michel Wright Prize and his second collection Lime Green Chair won the 2011 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2015. He won the Queensland Literary Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for The Oblong Plot in 2025.