Renate Punka wears three hats in her daily professional life. She is managing director of Janis Roze Publishers – one of the oldest and most respectable publishing houses, the home of many established and aspiring writers from Latvia and, mostly, from abroad. Since 2012, Renate Punka has been repeatedly elected as the president of the Latvian Publishers Association (LPA); in this role she actively engages in debates about cultural policy of Latvia and lobbies the interests of book sector, she is also represantive of the LPA to the Federation of European Publishers (FEP) and looks after LPA’s internatinal activites. Renate Punka is also a professionally trained translator and has translated around 50 books of fiction and non-fiction from English and Russian, including EUPL laureate Karen Gillece.
