Alison Layland, MITI, has been a freelance translator for around 20 years. She is a member of the ITI (Institute of Translation and Interpreting) and Society of Authors. After studying Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Trinity College, Cambridge, she pursued an 8-year career as a chartered surveyor before becoming a freelance translator from German, French and Welsh into English. She has a broad spectrum of interests and has translated a wide range of commercial, technical, academic and creative texts, including the acclaimed novel The Colour of Dawn by Haitian author Yanick Lahens, and she is also a published novelist.
Hans Widmer: The Concept of Uncompromising Humanism – Knowledge as the foundation of an enabling and enabled society