Auteur: J. Derrick McClure Reiko Aiura J. U. Jacobs

Reiko Aiura is Professor of English at Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan. As a student at Aberdeen University, she participated in the first RNLA conference, held in Aberdeen, and 24 years later she organized this conference. Her research interests are in Scottish literature, the origins of literature, and cultural translations.J. U. Jacobs is Emeritus Professor of English and Senior Research Associate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. He has published widely on South African and postcolonial fiction and autobiography, and is one of the founding editors of the journal Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. J. Derrick McClure retired in 2009 from the post of Senior Lecturer in the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Scottish linguistic and literary topics, and of Scots translations from poetry in Gaelic, Italian and other languages. In 2002, he was awarded an MBE for services to Scottish culture.