Rosie Marteau

Rosie Marteau is a literary and academic translator from Spanish and Portuguese. She read Modern & Medieval Languages at Cambridge University.

Her literary work includes Washing Dishes in Hotel Paradise by Eduardo Belgrano Rawson (Hesperus Press, 2010) and Red Tales Cuentos Rojos by Susana Medina (Araña Editorial, 2012).

"The translations are idiomatic and clever, maintaining much of the humour and wordplay of the Spanish." Ben Bollig, Times Literary Supplement, December 2013.

Her continued and fruitful collaboration with Susana Medina has also included a short story, 'Oestrogen', which was selected for Best of European Fiction 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press and 'Poem 66', published by US-based chapbook press Goodmorning Menagerie (2018).

She has also translated non-fiction titles, including Kings of the Grail by Margarita Torres Sevilla (Michael O'Mara Books, 2015). Her most recent non-fiction work was Rupture: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy by leftwing Spanish academic Manuel Castells (Polity Press, 2018).

She is also an experienced professional in charity communications and fundraising, and has headed up fundraising and partnerships for US-based NGO CLEAR Global (formerly Translators without Borders).