Iona Macintyre is a scholar and translator, specializing in Latin American culture and literature. She studied at the University of Glasgow, and did her PhD at the University of Nottingham. She now teaches at the University of Edinburgh.
Her English co-translation with Fiona Mackintosh of Argentine author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's Las aventuras de la China Iron was published by Charco Press as The Adventures of China Iron and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020. The novel is a re-telling of Martín Fierro, an Argentinian literary classic.
She was one of the translators into English of Escape Goat, the 2020 Portuguese Covid-inspired lockdown novel, brought out by the publisher Relógio D'Água.
References
- "Iona Macintyre". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- "International Booker Prize Shortlist 2020". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- Fisher, Jamie (13 October 2020). "In Shaping Her Own Story, She Upends a National Epic". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- Flood, Alison (29 April 2020). "Portuguese authors collaborate on serial lockdown novel". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
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