SELTA Chair Ian Giles has been elected as Co-Chair of the Translators Association (TA), the union for literary translators in the UK under the umbrella of the Society of Authors. He formally took up office at the TA’s AGM on 9 November and will serve a term of two years. Vineet Lal is the other Co-Chair, whom SELTA members may remember interviewed Sarah Death as part of the 2023 SoA@Home programme.

Swedish interests are well catered to at present on the TA committee. Fellow SELTA member Nichola Smalley was also elected to the committee at the same time as Ian in 2022. Over the years, SELTA members have frequently served within the TA. Doyenne of Swedish translation Patricia Crampton served as Chair on three different occasions. More recently, committee members have included Ruth Urbom, Sarah Death, Kevin Halliwell, while SELTA founder member Ann Henning Jocelyn served as Chair of the TA in the 1980s.

Ian wrote a feature about the TA in CEATL’s journal Counterpoint earlier this year. Read it here.