John David Rutherford is a British literary critic who is Emeritus Fellow (2008) of The Queen's College, Oxford, a Hispanist and an award-winning novelist[1] and translator[2] from Spanish to English.
Rutherford attended The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in North London.
His interests include Galician studies, and the theory and practice of literary translation.
[5] A past president of the International Association of Galician Studies (AEIG) from 1994 to 1997,[6] Rutherford is the Director of the Centre for Galician Studies at the University of Oxford and belongs to the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.
He is an honorary member of the Real Academia Gallega (Royal Galician Academy).