How Might US, Canadian, and Mexican Literary Translation Associations Collaborate?, Part 1

The presidents of Ametli of Mexico, LTAC of Canada, and ALTA will brainstorm about ways our three associations can work together to develop this exciting new collaboration.

This is an open conversation; we welcome input from ALTA members and conference attendees. Format: Our three associations are joining forces to create an Americas-wide network linking literary translators, aiming in particular to increase the sharing of resources and knowledge, and promote initiatives and events for the benefit of our members.

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Organizers

Ellen Elias-Bursać is a translator from the Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, and President of ALTA. Bilal Hashmi is President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada/Association des traducteurs et traductrices littéraires du Canada and the Executive Director and Publisher of Quattro Books. He teaches Urdu at the University of Toronto. In 2020, he served on the faculty of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. Arturo Vázquez Barrón is President of the Asociación Mexicana de Traductores Literarios and translates from French and English into Spanish. As a freelance literary translator, he translates for various publishing houses and periodicals. He has translated and published, among others, Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Michon, Bernard Noël, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Annie Saumont, Michel Tournier, and Marguerite Yourcenar.

Participants

Diana Arbiser is an emerging English into Spanish literary translator. She is a Banff BILTC alumna (2021) with a background in Translation and Interpretation Studies, and an extensive career as a US Court Certified Interpreter (Spanish). Yeddanapudi Radhika is an emerging translator (Spanish to English) working from Canada. Works translated include two plays, a popular science book, a short novel. Most useful memberships in terms in terms of learning and the friends made: American Literary Translators Association and ELTNA. Emerging translators in Canada need mentorship and support. Joon-Li Kim is an emerging translator, translating from Korean into English, based in Ohio. Kim needs much more information on resources for translators. Doo-Sun Ryu is currently on the English department faculty at Seoul National University and working on translating into English.