The Translators Association (TA) was established in 1958 as a specialist group within the Society of Authors, the UK trade union for professional writers, with a membership of more than 12,000.
The TA administers prizes for published translations of full-length works of literary merit and general interest from the following languages into English: Arabic, Dutch or Flemish, French, German, modern Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
[3] The current committee members are Ian Giles (chair), Isabel del Rio, Paul Russell Garrett, Kathy Saranpa, Nichola Smalley, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, and Roland Glasser (ex-officio).
[4] Previous committee members include Anthea Bell, Peter Bush, Robert Chandler, Charlotte Collins, Howard Curtis, Rebecca DeWald, Kari Dickson, Marta Dziurosz, William Gregory, Daniel Hahn, Rosalind Harvey, Nicky Harman, Rosie Hedger, Sawad Hussain, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Vineet Lal, Natasha Lehrer, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Christina MacSweeney, Ruth Martin, Anju Okhandiar, Clare Richards, Samantha Schnee, Ros Schwartz, Jamie Lee Searle, Trista Selous, Deborah Smith, Ruth Urborn, Helen Wang, Shaun Whiteside (ex-officio).
Translators Association - A special series curated by Charlotte Collins to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the TA.