Miranda France

Miranda France is an award winning writer and translator. She has written two highly acclaimed travel books, Bad Times in Buenos Aires and Don Quixote's Delusions. France has won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. She has translated Argentine writers including Alberto Manguel, Claudia Piñeiro and Liliana Heker. She grew up on a farm, not unlike the farm that is featured in her first novel, That Summer at Hill Farm, but now lives in London with her husband and two children.