Interview with Ivan Ćesić
Interview by: Marija Birtić
Faculty of Economics in Osijek
Postgraduate study of Entrepreneurship

1. How did you decide to enter this field in particular?

As you have already mentioned on your web sites, already as a student of Croatian language and literature I was particularly bothered by a level of illiteracy of a great number of magazines in the Republic of Croatia. Therefore, in addition to my studies I started to diligently analyze Croatian language, all the finesses related to the syntax, stylistics, grammar and orthography. Already as an ABD student I started to work as an external associate – language editor for the most eminent Croatian publishing companies.

PROOF READERS AND TRANSLATORS
Style proof reading and editing

Due to lack of literacy in magazines in the Croatian market, Mr. Ivan Ćesić established EDITOR PLUS - Centre for language editing and translating

Written by: Bojana Božanić
Photo by: Željko Jelenski

As a student of Croatian studies, Ivan Ćesić came up with the idea of promoting literacy i.e. good quality writing in the Croatian language, mostly motivated by the lack of literacy of the majority of magazines in the Croatian market. Centre EDITOR PLUS grew from Lektor, a non-profit organisation, whose task was to promote literacy. After this had turned out to be insufficient, according to the opinion of Mr. Ćesić, he decided to start up his own business. One of the moving forces of Mr. Ćesić when he was establishing his own business was his wish that a number of foreign titles be translated into Croatian with top quality. The initial goal were services of style editing and proof reading of translations. This young company, established in May 2005, currently offers services of editing, proof reading, translations, graphic elaboration of texts and elaboration and finishing of cover pages.