Gerald Martin (born 22 February, 1944)[2] is an English literary critic whose work focuses on Latin American fiction.
Gerald Martin studied Spanish, French, and Portuguese at Bristol in 1965 and received his PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 1970.
After spending a year in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with VSO (1965-1966), he later carried out postgraduate work in UNAM, Mexico (1968-1969) and, as a Harkness Fellowship recipient, was a visiting scholar at Stanford University (1971-1972).
He went on to work for 25 years as the only English-speaking member of the Colección Archivos in Paris and in Pittsburgh, and became President of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.
Martin has also produced critical editions of Hombres de maíz (1981) and El Señor Presidente (2000), as well as translating the former work.