The Texas Institute of Letters has awarded AATIA member and acclaimed literary translator Marian Schwartz the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for her translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Marian beat out co-competitors Travis Sorenson, translator of The Milli Vanilli Condition: Essays […]
AATIA will offer a court interpreting workshop approved by the Texas Judicial Branch Certification Commission (JBCC) on August 6th, 2016. Our presenters will be Eta Trabing and Maurine McLean. Jeff Rinard of JBCC will also be on hand to answer […]
Find out in the latest issue of Source, the journal of the American Translators Association’s Literary Division. Source is edited by AATIA members Michele Aynesworth and Tony Beckwith, along with Patrick Saari, a translator/interpreter based in Quito, Ecuador.
The United Nations Department for General Assembly and Conference Management has announced June 28, 2016 as the date for its next Spanish Language Competitive Examination. The deadline to submit applications is April 14, 2016. Click for more information about the exam […]
March 12 was a lovely sunny day after a week of gloomy weather. It was also the start of Spring Break and SxSW. In spite of all that, a sizeable number of devoted translators and interpreters attended the general meeting […]
Those who attend our general meeting on March 12th are in for a real treat! Rita Pavone, a certified crisis management specialist and Core Certification Healthcare Interpreter, will kick off our program with a presentation on navigating the pitfalls of […]
AATIA has received notice of two Austin-based jobs for Spanish<>English linguists, one at the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services and the other at the University of Texas. For more information contact the AATIA Communications Director.
This coming Friday, February 19th, 2016, Malvern Books in Austin will host an evening with Toni Sala, award-winning author of The Boys, a novel centering around the sudden deaths of two young men in a provincial town in the Catalonian […]
AATIA will host an American Translators Association (ATA) certification exam sitting in Austin on July 16, 2016. Exam candidates must be members of ATA for a minimum of four weeks prior to the exam sitting and must have supplied proof […]