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UK Regional Event

Nov 22, 2008



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Ros Schwartz

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Bio:Ros Schwartz is an award-winning literary translator, a leading light in the Translators’ Association of the Society of Authors and one of the UK’s foremost specialists in cross-cultural corporate communications. A freelancer since 1980, Ros Schwartz has translated some 50 works of fiction and non-fiction, particularly novels by contemporary Francophone writers. Ros runs a small translation company with a team of translators working into and out of the major European languages and specializing in the arts, development and corporate literature. She works for a select number of clients with the emphasis on quality and style, developing long-term relationships based on good communications. Ros is Chair of the European Council of Literary Translators Associations (CEATL), Chair of the Advisory Panel to the British Centre for Literary Translation and Vice-Chair of English PEN’s Writers in Translation Programme. She runs numerous workshops, is a frequent speaker on the international circuit and publishes articles on translation-related issues.