In 2016 he was invited by the British Council and Queen Mary University of London for a fellowship and in 2018 he received the prestigious Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library.

As a translator he is responsible for more than thirty versions, mostly into Spanish, of authors such as Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Herman Melville, Thomas De Quincey, Lewis Carroll, Rebecca West, Allen Ginsberg, J.R. Ackerley, Scott Fitzgerald, Dylan Thomas, Edgar Lee Masters, among many others.

He is the co-founder, along with the painter Alberto Pina (with whom he lived at the Spanish Academy in Rome), of the publishing house of artists' books El cañón de Garibaldi.

In February 2011 Andrés Barba held a photographic exhibition at New York University, Juan Carlos I Chair.

In 2020, in the United Kingdom, María Martínez Bayona made a film adaptation of Las manos pequeñas (Such Small Hands), which won Best Director at the Fantastic Fest (2021) and at the Aesthetica Short Film festival (2021).