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'''Allan Cameron''' (born 1952) is a Scottish author and translator.

== Early life ==
Allan Cameron was brought up in [[Nigeria]] and [[Bangladesh]]. He worked at sea, and at the age of twenty, he moved to Italy, where he lived for many years. At the age of 31, Cameron went to university and after graduating, he worked in the same department he had studied at.<ref>Vagabond Voices, Allan Cameron [http://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/authors/allan-cameron/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615125245/http://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/authors/allan-cameron/|date=15 June 2013}}, retrieved 21 March 2013</ref> In 1992, he moved to Scotland. Cameron now lives in Glasgow.<ref>Scottish Book Trust, Allan Cameron [http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/profile-author/16088], retrieved 19 March 2013</ref>

== Career ==
Cameron 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 ''[[The 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 His unpublished works include three plays, two in Italian (''Quei baffoni di Giorgio Scali'' and ''Grembizzot: gli ultimi giorni di uno sconfitto'') and one in English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 number of short stories and poetry in both languages.<ref>il garrulo, Allan Cameron [http://ilgarrulo.com/allan-cameron/] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130629122505/http://ilgarrulo.com/allan-cameron/|date=29 June 2013}}, retrieved 20 March 2013</ref>

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).<ref>Scottish Book Trust, Allan Cameron [http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/profile-author/16088], retrieved 20 March 2013</ref>

From 2008 Cameron was 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.<ref>Publishing Scotland, Vagabond Voices [http://www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/members/publisher-members/vagabond-voices/], retrieved 22 March 2013</ref>

==Bibliography==

=== Fiction ===

'''Novels'''
* '' The Golden Menagerie'' (Luath Press Ltd, 2004)
* ''The Berlusconi Bonus'' (Luath Press Ltd, 2005), (Azimut, Roma, 2006), (Vagabond Voices, 2010)
* ''Cinico: Travels with a Good Professor at the Time of the Scottish Referendum'' (Vagabond Voices, 2017)
* ''A Woman's War Against Progress'' (Vagabond Voices, 2023)
'''Poetry'''
* ''Presbyopia: Selected Poems'' (Vagabond Voices, 2009)
* ''A Barrel of Dried Leaves'' (Vagabond Voices, 2016)

=== Non-fiction ===
* ''In Praise of the Garrulous'' (Vagabond Voices, 2008)
* ''Things Written Randomly in Doubt'' (Vagabond Voices, 2014)

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130704064935/http://ilgarrulo.com/ ilgarrulo, Allan Cameron's website]
* [http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/profile-author/16088 Scottish Book Trust page on Allan Cameron]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070705040712/http://www.ucpress.edu/books/sale/pages/10111.html Note about Cameron's career as a translator in author profile.]

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