Clara Ministral studied Translation and Comparative Literature in Madrid and London and has been translating fiction and non-fiction from English to Spanish for over fifteen years. She has translated works by Jan Carson, Louise Kennedy, Rónán Hession, Colin Bateman, Rebecca Solnit and John Haines, among others. During that time, she has also held other positions in the arts sector, both in the UK and in Spain, primarily in publishing and bookselling. Since 2018, she has been running a mentoring scheme for emerging translators in Spain in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Literary Translators.

Ever since discovering and then translating Jan Carson’s novel The Fire Starters, Clara has been a keen proponent of Irish literature in Spain, with a particular interest in the North, and currently runs Wheeker Books, a project intended to introduce Northern Irish works to Spanish-speaking publishers and audiences. She has contributed to Literature Ireland’s Talking Translations podcast and to their series of summer workshops for early career literary translators and postgraduate students of translation, and in 2022 she was the inaugural Literature Ireland/University College Cork Literary Translator in Residence.