Conville & Walsh

Miranda France is a linguist who worked with street children in Brazil after university, thereafter moving to Buenos Aires where she freelanced for newspapers across a spectrum from the Daily Telegraph to the Guardian. Upon returning to London in 1996, she won the Spectator‘s Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize with an essay that formed the heart of her first book: BAD TIMES IN BUENOS AIRES published by Weidenfeld, which the New York Times described as ‘a remarkable achievement’ whilst The Times noted her ‘Chekhovian ability to make you laugh at tragic stories.’ It was followed two years later by DON QUIXOTE‘S DELUSIONS, a wonderful book about Castilian Spain which the Sunday Times described as ‘stimulating to the point of intoxication.’

Since then, Miranda has been translating for Alma and Bitter Lemon Press and helping Carl Honoré, her husband, bring up their two young children.