Peter Bush is one of the most prestigious translators of Catalan literature. He is the translator of some of the most important names in Catalan literature, such as Mercè Rodoreda, Joan Sales or Josep Pla, as well as writers from the new generation like Teresa Solana, Francesc Serés and Najat El Hachmi. He has also worked as a translator of Portuguese, French and Spanish, specializing above all in the work of Juan Goytisolo.
The publication in the United States of Josep Pla’s The Grey Notebook, and in the United Kingdom of Uncertain Glory, by Joan Sales, received excellent reviews in the specialist press. In 2014 he was awarded the Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation for his English translation of Josep Pla’s The Grey Notebook.