Anne McLean translates Spanish and Latin American literature by authors including Héctor Abad, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez and Ignacio Martínez de Pisón. She has twice been awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas (which also won her the Premio Valle Inclán), and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero.  She was awarded a Cruz de Oficial of the Order of Civil Merit in recognition of her contribution to making Spanish literature known to a wider public, and the 2014 Dublin Literary Award with Juan Gabriel Vásquez for The Sound of Things Falling.  In 2023, her translation of Terra Alta (Even the Darkest Night) by Javier Cercas was awarded the International Dagger by the Crime Writers' Association.