Allan Cameron

Allan Cameron (born 1952) is a Scottish author and translator. Early life Allan Cameron was brought up in Nigeria and Bangladesh. He worked at sea, and at the age of twenty, he moved to Italy, where he lived for many years. At the age of 31, Cameron went to university and after graduating, he worked in the same department he had studied at. In 1992, he moved to Scotland. Cameron now lives in Glasgow. Career Cameron has published articles in the daily newspaper L’Unità, the Italian current affairs magazine Reset, and the academic journals Teoria Politica and Renaissance Studies. He also contributed the comments on Pope, Hume and Winstanley to Alasdair Gray's Book of Prefaces. His unpublished works include three plays, two in Italian (Quei baffoni di Giorgio Scali and Grembizzot: gli ultimi giorni di uno sconfitto) and one in English (Calvin’s Christ). He has also produced a number of short stories and poetry in both languages.