Francisco Torres Oliver (born Villajoyosa, Alicante (Spain), June 21, 1935) is one of the most important Spanish translators.

Along with the scholar Rafael Llopis, he is one of the main proponents of macabre and mystery literature in Spain.

[4] Torres Oliver has also translated numerous texts of history, philosophy, and anthropology into Spanish.

He has translated, among others, the following authors: Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, H. P. Lovecraft, James Hogg, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malory, Arthur Machen, M. R. James and Vladimir Nabokov.

Later, in 2001, he won the Premio Nacional a la Obra de un Traductor of Spain, in recognition of all his professional work.