Yaron Matras (born 24 October 1963) is a linguist at the University of Manchester specializing in Romani, Kurdish, and other languages of the Middle East.
In 2012 Yaron Matras was awarded the Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.
[1] Matras wrote I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies, published in 2014.
[2][3] Writing in The Observer, journalist Peter Stanford wrote that "Matras's immaculately researched, warm and comprehensive study is a challenge belatedly to make a start [of understanding the Romani].
"[2] Historian Eve Rosenhaft complimented the book's "lively style, colourful anecdote and measured and conscientious approach to presenting and assessing evidence" and recommended it to "both scholarly and popular readerships, and this is important because it is meant to find a wide audience and deserves to do so.