Viktorija Osolnik Kunc elected to the FIT Council

Viktorija Osolnik Kunc was elected to the FIT Council in Varadero, Cuba.

Viktorija Osolnik Kunc, President of SCIT®, who was nominated by her association SCIT® as a candidate for the FIT Council, was accompanied by the Slovene delegation at the FIT Statutory Congress and the XXII FIT World Congress of Translators in Varadero, held from May 30 to June 3, 2022.

As a first-time Council member of the 14-member Council, she received a convincingly high number of votes from the electors present at the Congress. She was elected to this international non-governmental organization for the 2022–2025 mandate period.

The FIT Council is the highest international body representing translators, interpreters and terminologists, represented in more than 160 national associations worldwide.

The International Federation of Translators FIT / Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs was founded in 1953 in Paris. Its founder was Pierre-François Caillé. From 1963 to 1966, the Croatian translator, poet and journalist Zlatko Gorjan served as President of FIT. In the seventy years since FIT was founded, Slovenia is represented on the FIT Council for the first time.

The new FIT President, Alison Rodriguez (New Zealand), has issued a press release on the new FIT Council, new FIT members and the recipients of numerous awards for outstanding achievements in translation, interpreting and media presence, which can be read in English, French and Spanish.

Viktorija Osolnik Kunc is a graduate (1997) of the first cohort of the German translation programme at the former joint Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (English and German). She studied in Ljubljana, Graz, Leipzig and Kingston-upon-Thames. In 1999, she became a court interpreter for German, and since 2009 she has also been an examiner for court interpreters for German at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2012, she became President of SCIT®, the Association of Sworn Court Interpreters and Legal Translators of Slovenia SCIT®, which she also co-founded. At the Department of German Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), she teaches practical classes and seminars in the fields of professional translation into German and specialist and academic communication in German.

From left to right:
Jan Chr. Næss (Norway), Olga Egorova (Russia), Annette Schiller (Ireland), Viktorija Osolnik Kunc (Slovenia), Ted Wozniak (USA), Tiina Tuominen (Finland), Alejandra Jorge (Argentina), Iris Gretchen González Nieto (Cuba), Marta Morros Serret (Spain), Eleanor Cornelius (South Africa), Alexandra Jantscher-Karlhuber (Austria).

Missing from the picture:
Alison Rodriguez (New Zealand), Victoria Lei Cheng Lai (Macau) and Anming Gao (China).

The elected co-opted members of the FIT Council are the following three representatives:
Guillaume Deneufbourg (Belgium), Roula Kamal Salam (Canada) and Katia Jiménez Pochet (Costa Rica).

The Slovene delegation at the FIT Statutory Congress.