Xela Arias, a pioneering editor and translator in the Xerais staff

Abstract

This study traces Xela Arias’ career as an editor, from the creation of the Xerais publishing house in 1980, when she started working in the company office. In 1982, she began to work in desktop publishing of literary texts from collections such as Ventobranco, Monte e Fontes, Grandes Mestres, Extramuros and, in particular, Xabarín, the first of its kind to publish translations into Galician of children’s literary classics. Self-taught, she was in a highly-responsible position with regard to the quality of the language of the texts. Her interpretations proved highly relevant in the process of setting the orthographic standard of 1983 with the criteria that existed at the time and she became one of the pioneers editing in Galician.