Rosie Marteau
Rosie Marteau is a literary and academic translator from Spanish and Portuguese, living near Porto. She read Modern & Medieval Languages at Cambridge University.
Her fiction work from Spanish includes Washing Dishes in Hotel Paradise by Eduardo Belgrano Rawson (2010) and Red Tales by Susana Medina (2012). Non-fiction titles include Kings of the Grail by Margarita Torres Sevilla (2015) and Rupture: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy by leftwing Spanish academic Manuel Castells (2018).
In 2019 she moved to Portugal and transitioned to translating from Portuguese. Forthcoming in 2026 with Oxford World Classics is the first English edition of Legends and Narratives by Alexandre Herculano (originally published in 1851), with academic introduction and notes by David G. Frier.
She works for an international NGO, writes poetry and is currently preparing the manuscript for a debut novel, set on the Portuguese Caminho de Santiago.