Vineet Lal is a literary translator and equalities campaigner based in Edinburgh. He has degrees in French from the
University of Edinburgh and Princeton University, and studied translation and conference interpreting at Heriot-Watt University.
After a long career in tourism and destination marketing, he turned to literary translation, and he was one of the first recipients of the Emerging Translator Mentorships in 2010. He has translated novels by a number of French authors including Guillaume Musso, Michel Bussi and Grégoire Delacourt, as well as several books and short stories for younger readers. His translation of The Red Notebook was shortlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2023, and his translation of The Brothers Zzli won the Prix Albertine Jeunesse (6-8 years category) 2024. In July 2025 he led the French-English translation workshop at the BCLT
Summer School, alongside Swiss author Bruno Pellegrino. He was co-chair of the Translators Association from 2022-24, and was a
Trustee of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature from 2013-2025.