Wednesday, the 18th of June 2025, starting with 17.30 CET, the Iași International Festival of Literature and Translation (FILIT), in collaboration with ARTLIT (the Romanian Association for Literary Translators), will host an online CELA masterclass with two experienced translators and advocates for fair practices, Ela Varošanec Krsnik from Croatia and Mirela Iacob from Romania.
The CELA presentation How can literary artists reclaim legitimacy and fair practice? is part of the Literature as a Social Elevator Masterclass series offered by FILIT&ARTLIT. All the participants who signed up for this online meeting will join a presentation followed by a free dialogue with the two guest speakers. They will talk and answer questions about contracts, copyright licensing, working on different types of translation (theatre, music, etc.), new AI approaches, moral and patrimonial rights duration of licensing, what red flags someone can encounter in contracts.
Ela Varošanec Krsnik, Croatia – Professional literary translator from Spanish and English, member of the Croatian Literary Translators’ Association, Croatian delegate in CEATL (The European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations) where she is part of the Authors’ Rights Working Group and AI Task Force. She has almost 30 translations published, mostly novels of Spanish and Latin American authors. Her most recent translations into Croatian are from Mariana Enríquez, Fernanda Melchor and Manuel Vilas.
Mirela Iacob, Romania – Literary translator, interpreter, musician and teacher, working with German and English to Romanian and vice-versa. Her experience as a translator sums up over 25 years and more than 30 titles published (fiction, art catalogues, music, philosophy, etc.). She lives in Timișoara and is very active on the local cultural scene. She is a member of ARTLIT and coordinates cultural events of the association in Timișoara. Her most recent translations into Romanian are from Byung-Chul Han and Erwin Kecsek.
The masterclass is part of Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA), a talent development project for the new generation of European literary voices across 11 different countries, supported by Creative Europe of the European Union.