Ángel Gurría-Quintana is a historian, journalist and literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Educated in Mexico City and Cambridge, he is a regular contributor to the books pages of the Financial Times, for which he reviews fiction in translation. His writing has also appeared in The Observer, The Guardian, The Economist, Prospect, Granta and The Paris Review. In 2014 he edited and translated Other Carnivals: New Stories from Brazil (Full Circle Editions). He is programme curator for FlipSide literary festival, and is an International Strategy Officer at the University of Cambridge.