Margaret Jull Costa has translated many Portuguese and Spanish writers. She was joint-winner of the Portuguese Translation Prize in 1992 for The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa‚ and was runner-up in 1996 and 2002 for The Relic by Eça de Queiroz and The Migrant Painter of Birds by Lídia Jorge. With Javier Marías‚ she won the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for A Heart So White and‚ in 2000‚ she won the Weidenfeld Translation Prize for José Saramago’s All the Names.