# Translators Association

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The '''Translators Association''' (TA) represents [literary translator](/source/literary_translator)s in the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom). It is part of the [Society of Authors](/source/Society_of_Authors) (SoA) and is affiliated with the [International Federation of Translators](/source/International_Federation_of_Translators) (FIT).

==History==
The Translators Association (TA) was established in 1958 as a specialist group within the [Society of Authors](/source/Society_of_Authors), the UK trade union for professional writers, with a membership of more than 12,000.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Porter |date=2023-10-04 |title=UK's Society of Authors' CEO Nicola Solomon is Retiring |url=https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/10/in-england-the-society-of-authors-ceo-nicola-solomon-is-retiring/ |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Publishing Perspectives |language=en-US}}</ref> The TA provides [professional](/source/professional) advice, representing individual translators and acting as an advocate for the profession as a whole.

The TA administers prizes for published translations of full-length works of literary merit and general interest from the following languages into [English](/source/English_language): [Arabic](/source/Arabic_language), [Dutch](/source/Dutch_language) or [Flemish](/source/Flemish_dialects), [French](/source/Italian_language), [German](/source/German_language), [modern](/source/French_language) [Greek](/source/Greek_language), [Italian](/source/Italian_language), [Japanese](/source/Spanish_language), [Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language), [Spanish](/source/Spanish_language), and [Swedish](/source/Swedish_language).<ref>{{cite web |date= 8 May 2020|title=Translation Prizes |url=https://www2.societyofauthors.org/prizes/translation-prizes/ |accessdate=2023-12-19 |publisher=Society of Authors}}</ref>

==Committee==
The TA is run by a committee of seven elected members.<ref>{{cite web |title=TA Committee Society of Authors |date=9 January 2025 |url=https://www2.societyofauthors.org/groups/translators-association/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2025-01-09}}</ref> The current committee members are Ian Giles (chair), Isabel del Rio, Paul Russell Garrett, Kathy Saranpa, Nichola Smalley, [Fiona Sze-Lorrain](/source/Fiona_Sze-Lorrain), and [Roland Glasser](/source/Roland_Glasser) ([CEATL](/source/CEATL) delegate).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Society of Authors TA Committee |date=9 May 2020 |url=https://www2.societyofauthors.org/groups/translators-association/committee/ |access-date=19 December 2023}}</ref> 

Previous committee members include [Anthea Bell](/source/Anthea_Bell), [Peter Bush](/source/Peter_Bush_(translator)), [Robert Chandler](/source/Robert_Chandler_(translator)), [Charlotte Collins](/source/Charlotte_Collins), [Howard Curtis](/source/Howard_Curtis), Rebecca DeWald, [Kari Dickson](/source/Kari_Dickson), Marta Dziurosz, William Gregory, [Daniel Hahn](/source/Daniel_Hahn), Rosalind Harvey, [Nicky Harman](/source/Nicky_Harman), Rosie Hedger, Sawad Hussain, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Vineet Lal, [Natasha Lehrer](/source/Natasha_Lehrer), [Antonia Lloyd-Jones](/source/Antonia_Lloyd-Jones), [Christina MacSweeney](/source/Christina_MacSweeney), Ruth Martin, Anju Okhandiar, Clare Richards, Samantha Schnee, [Ros Schwartz](/source/Ros_Schwartz), Jamie Lee Searle, Trista Selous, [Deborah Smith](/source/Deborah_Smith_(translator)), Ruth Urborn, [Helen Wang](/source/Helen_Wang), Shaun Whiteside (ex-officio).

The TA is coordinated by Catherine Fuller and Ambre Morvan from the SoA.

== Activities ==

Translators Association - A special series curated by [Charlotte Collins](/source/Charlotte_Collins) to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the TA.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 April 2018 |title=60 years of literary translation |url=https://60yearsoftranslation.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/the-journey-begins/}}</ref>

== Recent campaigns ==
Translators on the Cover - An open letter issued by the [Society of Authors](/source/Society_of_Authors) in September 2021, and signed by authors and translators, to campaign for translators' names to be included on the cover of the works they translate (#TranslatorsOnTheCover in [social media](/source/social_media)).

==Administered prizes==
* The Vondel Prize (for translation from Dutch)
* The [Schlegel-Tieck Prize](/source/Schlegel-Tieck_Prize) (for translation from German)
* The [Scott Moncrieff Prize](/source/Scott_Moncrieff_Prize) (for translation from French)
* The Saif Ghobash [Banipal Prize](/source/Banipal_Prize) (for translation from Arabic)
* The Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation (for translation from German)
* The Hellenic Foundation for Culture Translation Prize (for translation from Greek)
* The Calouste Gulbenkian Prize (for translation from Portuguese)
* The [Premio Valle Inclán](/source/Premio_Valle_Incl%C3%A1n) (for translation from Spanish)
* The Bernard Shaw Prize (for translation from Swedish)

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www2.societyofauthors.org/groups/translators-association/ Translators Association]

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