Credentials of Louis Mitler

Experience

Owner, TRS Translation Services
1983-Present
Washington, DC and Charlottesville, VA

Cataloger (Turkish), Middle East Institute
1986-1987
Washington, DC

Translator, Property Manager
1977-1983
Lexington, Kentucky

Librarian (consultant for reorganization),
Çukurova University
1977
Adana, Turkey

Cataloger, Middle Eastern Materials,
LIbrary of Congress
1974-1977
Washington, DC

Education

University of Kentucky
Master of Library Sciences
Lexington, Kentucky
1973-1974

Indiana University
Doctoral Studies (Turkish)
Ural and Altaic Languages Department
Bloomington, Indiana
1972-1973

University of Kentucky
Master of Arts (History)
Lexington, Kentucky
1967-1970

Istanbul University
Lisans (B.A.), (philosophy, psychology)
[Turkish language] Edebiyat Fakültesi
(Department of Arts and Letters)
Istanbul, Turkey
1967-1970

Catholic University
Washington, DC
1964-1965

Liceo San Damiano
Maturità (High School Certificate)
Assisi, Italy
1963

Languages

Native languages: English
Source languages: Turkish, Azeri (Azerbaijani), Italian, and Spanish
Language of interest: French and German

References

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Professional Affiliations

American Translators Association
Life member: member since 1977

American Literary Translators Association
Active member since 1990

National Association of Judiciary
Interpreters and Translators
Active member since 1995

Secretariate of State of Canada, Ottawa Ontario
Turkish Language Certification

Selected Publications

Forty Years of Turkish Humor: Anthology Short Stories by Aziz Nesin. Translated by Louis Mitler. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1991.

Contemporary Turkish Writers. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1988.

Bekir Yildiz. "Shahan the Smuggler."
Translated by Louis Mitler in Contemporary Turkish Literature. Talat Sait Halman, ed. Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickins 1982.

"The Genoese in Galata, 1453-1682."
International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 10 (1979); 71-91.

Füzuran. "The River." Translated by Louis Mitler in An Anthology of Modern Turkish Short Stories. Fahir Iz, ed. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1978.

"The Anarchist" in The Library of Congress Literary Anthology. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress Professional Association 1977.

"Love at First Sight" in Ararat Magazine.
Spring Literary Anthology, 1975.

Book Reviews of Middle Eastern Publications in American Reference Books Annual, 6th edition, 1975.

Book reviews for Library Journal,
1975-1976.

"Selected Bibliography of Works on the
Genoese Presence in Galata, 1453-1682"
in Middle Eastern Library Association Notes.  Autumn issue, 1975.