Valentín García Yebra (Lombillo de Los Barrios,

Ponferrada Ponferrada () is a city of Spain, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Ponferrada, the second most populated municipality of the Province of León, is also the capital city of El Bierzo, the only ''comarca'' recognized as ...

, León, 28 April 1917 –

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), an ...

, 13 December 2010), was a Spanish

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transla ...

and

translation scholar Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transla ...

Biography

He studied Arts at Madrid where he graduated in Classical Philology (1944), then he got his doctoral degree with his thesis ''Las traducciones latinas de la metafísica de Aristóteles''. After a long career as professor and scholar, in 1974 he boosted the creation of a Translation Institute at the

Universidad Complutense The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

, where he delivered lectures in

Translation Theory Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transl ...

. During his career he was awarded several prizes, including the Spanish National Translation Award in 1998. From 1984 until his death he was a member of the Real Academia Española. In 1997 he joined the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.

Honors

* Premio Nacional a la Obra de un Traductor (1998) * Premio Nacional de Periodismo "Miguel Delibes" (2004) for his article "Desajustes gramaticales", published in ABC on 27 September 2004. * Honorary member of

Asetrad Asetrad (abbreviation for the "Asociación Española de Traductores, Correctores e Intérpretes" or the "Spanish Association of Translators, Copy-editors, and Interpreters") is an association based in Spain to support and facilitate the work of tran ...

(2008) * Honorary member of

IAPTI The International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI) is an international professional association of translators and interpreters based in Argentina. History Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, IAPTI was establi ...

(2009).García Yebra, miembro honorario de Aipti
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Works

Editorial Gredos, founded by García Yebra with fellow students, was in charge of publishing most of his books:

Translation

* Aguiar e Silva, Vítor Manuel de, ''Teoría de la literatura'' (1996, 1st ed.). *

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical Greece, Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatet ...

, '' Metafísica de Aristóteles (trilingual version)'', (1997, 2nd ed.). * ——, ''

Poetics Poetics is the theory of structure, form, and discourse within literature, and, in particular, within poetry. History The term ''poetics'' derives from the Ancient Greek ποιητικός ''poietikos'' "pertaining to poetry"; also "creative" an ...

(trilingual version)'', (1992, 1st ed.). * Julius Caesar, '' Guerra de las Galias'' (1985/2001, 3 vol. bilingual edition) * ——, ''Guerra de las Galias'' (1996/1999, 2 vol. with Latin notes) *

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the est ...

, '' De Amicitia, anotado'' (1987, 5th ed.). *

Étienne Gilson Étienne Henri Gilson (; 13 June 1884 – 19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the tradition ...

, ''El realismo metódico'' (Encuentro Ediciones, S.A., 1997). *

Oronzo Giordano Oronzo is an Italian personal name, derived from the Latin Orontius. It can refer to: *Saint Oronzo Saint Orontius of Lecce ( it, Sant'Oronzo, sometimes or ; Leccese: ) is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, along with two o ...

, ''Religiosidad popular en la Alta Edad Media'' (1983, 1st ed.). *

Gertrud von le Fort The Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort (full name ''Gertrud Auguste Lina Elsbeth Mathilde Petrea Freiin von Le Fort''; 11 October 1876 – 1 November 1971) was a German writer of novels, poems and essays. Life Le Fort was born in the city of Minden ...

, ''Himnos a la iglesia'' (Encuentro Ediciones, S.A., 1995). * ——, ''El velo de Verónica'' (Encuentro Ediciones, S.A., 1998). * Charles Möeller, ''Literatura del siglo XX y cristianismo'' (6 vol.). *

Friedrich Schleiermacher Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (; 21 November 1768 – 12 February 1834) was a German Reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional ...

, ''Sobre los diferentes métodos de traducir'' (2000). *

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (; 65 AD), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Seneca was born ...

, ''Medea'' (1982, 2nd ed./2001, 3rd ed.). /

Grammar and translation theory

*"Traducción y estilo", comunicación presentada al ''X Congreso Internacional de Lingüistas'' celebrado en Bucarest del 28 de agosto al 2 de septiembre de 1967 * ''Traducción y enriquecimiento de la lengua del traductor'' (1985 R.A.E./2004 Gredos). * ''Claudicación en el uso de preposiciones'' (1988). * ''En torno a la Traducción. Teoría. Crítica. Historia'' (1989, 2.ª ed.). * ''Traducción: Historia y Teoría'' (1994). * ''Teoría y Práctica de la Traducción (2 volúmenes)'', (1997, 3.ª ed. revisada). * ''Diccionario de galicismos prosódicos y morfológicos'' (1999). * ''Documentación, terminología y traducción'' (Editorial Síntesis, S.A., 2000, 1ª. edic., 2ª. impres.). * ''El buen uso de las palabras'' (2009). * Gonzalo García, Consuelo, ''et al.'', ''Manual de documentación para la traducción literaria'' (Arco Libros, S.L.,2005). * ''Experiencias de un traductor'' (2006).

References

External links

The translators' rights (in Spanish)
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