The winter 2016-2017 issue of Source, the newsletter of the American Translators Association (ATA) Literary Division, is now online. This issue features reviews of several sessions relating to literary translation presented at the recent ATA annual conference in San Francisco, including […]
Our November 12th general meeting was attended by 28 people, including some first-time visitors who are taking translation classes at Austin Community College (ACC). There was plenty of tasty finger food at the buffet table, brought by AATIA Director of […]
Our last general meeting of 2016 will take place on Saturday, November 12th, at the usual place: Best Western Plus Austin City Hotel, 2200 S. Interstate 35, Austin, TX 78704 (intersection of IH-35 & Oltorf Street Exit, exit 232A from […]
As previously reported, longtime AATIA member and award-winning literary translator Marian Schwartz has been invited to give the prestigious Marilyn Gaddis Rose lecture at the 57th annual conference of the American Translators Association (ATA), and we are delighted that she […]
General Meeting We had a good meeting on September 10. A sizeable turnout for two very interesting presentations, both of which shone a light on different aspects of translation in the digital age. Longtime member Frank Dietz talked about software […]
Don’t know what ekphrastic poetry is? Read this review of the most recent LitSIG meeting by Michele McKay Aynesworth and check out the submissions from members on the Dropbox site. AATIA’s Literary Special Interest Group (LitSIG) met on Saturday, September […]
We will be celebrating International Translation Day on September 30th, 6-8 p.m., with a special event at Malvern Books featuring readings from three renowned translators: Kurt Heinzelman, Jamey Gambrell, and our own Liliana Valenzuela, who will be reading from her […]
“Our time has come!” said AATIA member and translator and interpreter trainer Esther Diaz, ending her presentation at our July 9th general meeting, in which she described several recent developments that promise to open up new opportunities for interpreters and […]
Gregory Luis Rabassa (1922–2016) Gregory Rabassa died on June 13 after a brief illness, and with his passing an important era in the history of literary translation came to an end. Dr. Rabassa was a celebrated literary translator who worked […]