Miriam Lee

Company / Organization: FIT

Briefly describe yourself:

Literary Translation Group

Location: global

Interests: literary translation

Primary region of activity: Global

Member type: Civil Society

Primary professional involvement: Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content

About me:

Salzburg Global Seminar Session 461

I served as vice president of FIT, an ngo under UNESCO,

and attended the WSIS event in St Petersburg focussing on this strand of Cultural Diversity

(with a leaning towards Literary translation). The FIT Literary Translation Committee

has Cultural Diversity at the core of its activities.

It will meet at the XIX FIT Congress http://www.fit2011.org and award prizes: http://fitprizes.blogspot.com/