Amanda Hopkinson

{{Short description|British scholar and literary translator (born 1948)}}

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Amanda Hopkinson (born 1948) is a British scholar and literary translator.{{cite web|url=http://arcadiabooks.co.uk/author/amanda-hopkinson |title=Amanda Hopkinson | Arcadia Books |publisher=arcadiabooks.co.uk|accessdate=20 January 2016}}

Biography

She was born in London, England, to the British journalist and magazine editor Sir Tom Hopkinson and photographer Gerti Deutsch.{{Cite web|url = http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Biographies&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000119444&source=Bookmark&u=mlin_n_umass&jsid=aa729edf94eb3821230fde0bebab0209|title = Contemporary Authors Online|year = 2006|accessdate = 2016-01-21|website = Biography in Context|publisher = Gale}} She gained a BA from the University of Warwick in 1970.

During her academic career, Hopkinson has taught at City University, Manchester University, the University of East Anglia, the University of East London, Westminster University and Cardiff University. As a translator, she is best known for her English versions of contemporary Latin American literature. She has also translated several works by the French crime writer Dominique Manotti. In this work, she frequently collaborates with fellow translators Ros Schwartz and her husband Nick Caistor, with whom she lives in Norwich.{{cite web| url = http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowships/nick-caistor/| title = Nick Caistor, Non-fiction writer, Translator| accessdate = 2014-10-16| publisher = Royal Literary Fund}}

Hopkinson is additionally a writer on photography. She has published monographs on Julia Margaret Cameron, Martin Chambi and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and has further written or edited a number of books on photography and photojournalism. Hopkinson has also written the obituaries of numerous photographers for The Guardian newspaper.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/amanda-hopkinson |title=Amanda Hopkinson |work=The Guardian|accessdate=2016-01-20}}