Chris Durban FITI is a freelance translator based in Paris, producing publication-level texts for the foreign shareholders, customers and partners of French corporations and institutions. Her client-education column “The Onionskin” runs in the ITI bulletin and she co-authors a business advice column (Fire Ant & Worker Bee) in the online Translation Journal. Chris is a also member of the American Translators Association and the Société française des traducteurs.
Ros Schwartz MITI dropped out of university and ran away to Paris in the ’70s. Since 1981 she has translated a wide range of fiction and non-fiction from French and heads a small translation company specializing in corporate literature. She frequently publishes articles and gives workshops and talks on the art of translation. She is Chair of the European Council of Literary Translators Associations (CEATL) and of the British Centre for Literary Translation Advisory Panel.
