Allan Cameron (author)
Allan Cameron (born 1952) is a Scottish author and translator. Early life. Cameron was brought up in Nigeria and Bangladesh. He worked at sea and at the age of twenty moved to Italy, where he lived for many years. At the age of 31 he went to university and, after graduating, worked in the same department he had studied in. In 1992 he moved to Scotland, he now lives in Glasgow. Career. He has published articles in the daily newspaper L’Unità, the Italian current affairs magazine Reset, and the academic journals Teoria Politica and Renaissance Studies. He  also contributed the comments on Pope, Hume and Winstanley to Alasdair Gray's "Book of Prefaces". His unpublished works include three plays, two in Italian ("Quei baffoni di Giorgio Scali" and "Grembizzot: gli ultimi giorni di uno sconfitto") and one in English ("Calvin’s Christ"). He has also produced a certain number of short stories and poetry in both languages. Cameron has translated seventeen books by a variety of writers, including the post-war Italian philosopher Norberto Bobbio, the president of the European Commission Romano Prodi, and the historian Eric Hobsbawm. He has published two novels, "The Golden Menagerie" and  The Berlusconi Bonus. Cameron has published a book on language, "In Praise of the Garrulous" (2008), a collection of poetry, "Presbyopia" (2009), and two collections of short stories, "Can the Gods Cry?" (2011) and "On the Heroism of Mortals" (2012). From 2008, Cameron is the editorial director of Vagabond Voices. It is a small, independent publishing house based in Glasgow, committed to introducing new titles from Scottish authors and translating fiction from other languages. Vagabond Voices list aims to reflect literary ambition, promote innovative writers, and provide readers with a range of challenging titles. Novels. "The Golden Menagerie" (Luath Press  Ltd, 2004) "The Berlusconi Bonus" (Luath Press Ltd, 2005), (Vagabond Voices, 2010), was translated into Italian and published by Azimut in Rome. Short Stories. Can the Gods Cry? (Vagabond Voices,2011) On the Heroism of Mortals (Vagabond Voices,2012) Non-fiction titles. In Praise of the Garrulous (Vagabond Voices, 2008) Presbyopia (Vagabond Voices,2009) Bibliography. Fiction. Novels Short stories