Peter Bush is a freelance literary translator living in Barcelona.

He has translated the work of Nuria Amat, Chico Buarque, Juan Goytisolo, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Leonardo Padura amongst others. His translation of Amat's Queen Cocaine, Goytisolo's Blind Rider, and Padura's Havana Red, are published in 2005. He edited Voice of the Turtle, an anthology of Cuban stories and, with Lisa Dillman, Spain, A Traveller's Literary Companion to Spain.

He has been Professor of Literary Translation at the Universities of Middlesex and East Anglia where he was Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation.