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Mateo Cardona
Literary Translator
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Professional Profile Literature (fiction, non-fiction) and Humanities translator. Working languages: English and French to Spanish. Trainer of literary and editorial translators. Honorable Mention Aurora Borealis Non-Fiction Award from the International Translators Federation - FIT 2022. Looren/Coincidencia Scholarship resident for Latin American translators. Switzerland, 2019. Idartes National Literary Translation Grant 2016. Scholarship for translation of literary studies works from the Instituto Caro y Cuervo 2011. Editorial advisor. Academic editor, accredited by the Colombian Book Chamber. Consultant in Language and Writing. Editorial coordinator, writer. Academic Profile Professional in Literary Studies from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Certified training as an editorial, academic and literary translator. Languages: French: Baccalauréat, Philosophy and Letters series, option A-4; Fort de France, Antilles-Guyane. English: Long Beach, California, and New York City, N.Y. (U.S.A.). Distinctions Member of the Editorial Translation and Copyright Committee of the International Translators' Federation, ITF (2022-2023). Honorable Mention Aurora Borealis Non-Fiction Award from the International Federation of Translators - ITF, for Michael Edward Stanfield's Entre bestias y bellezas: raza, género e identidad en Colombia (Of Beasts and Beauty: Race, Gender and Identity in Colombia). Bogotá: Javeriana, 2020. Varadero, June 2022. Winner of a Looren/Coincidencia Residence Scholarship for Latin American translators, Switzerland, 2019. Founder and former director (2018-2023) of ACTTI Literaria, the literary translation and copyright committee of ACTTI. Founding member of ALITRAL, the Ibero-American Alliance for the Promotion of Literary Translation (Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Spain). Former president of the Colombian Association of Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters - ACTTI (2017; 2016, 2020-2022, vice-president). Winner of the Idartes 2016 National Translation Grant (Resolution 545 of June 1, 2More...