Text_Head: French to English and Spanish to English translation; English proofreading, editing, copywriting; Arts, Culture, Sociology, Opthalmology

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French to English
Spanish to English
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Specializes in:
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting	Poetry & Literature
Architecture	Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Medical (general)	Media / Multimedia
International Org/Dev/Coop	Philosophy
Medical: Dentistry

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Sample translations submitted: 2

Spanish to English: Adolescencia en Barcelona hacia 1970 by Laura Freixas [Extract] General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Spanish Pues mi abuela Carmen era dueña de algo maravilloso y punto irreal, condensado en un nombre, un nombre comestible como el arroz hervido que nos hacía mi otra abuela cuando estábamos enfermos, con ajo, cebolla y laurel –––llorer, en catalán–––. Un nombre transparente, verde y azul, crujiente como el papel de celofán cuando se estruja: Lloret de Mar. In Lloret, mi abuela poseía toda una montaña, picuda y marrón, entre un cielo azul marino que parecía de charol, y en la montaña había tres casas, como las tres sillas, los tres platos de sopa y las tres camas de Ricitos de Oro y los tres osos. Y por si fuera poco maravilla el que existieran casas de verdad iguales a las que componíamos en el colegio con lápices Caran d’Ache y papeles de colores, casas con tejado rojo, camino serpenteante hasta la puerta y chimenea con volutas de humo negro …por si fuera poco pasar en tales casas los veranos –––los justos, cuatro o cinco, para que aquello quedarse como un sueño luego mis padres se disgustaron con mi abuela y no volvimos más––– , por sí todo eso fuera poco, las tres casas se abrían como cofres y estaban llenas de tesoros.	Translation - English My grandmother Carmen was the mistress of something marvellous and slightly unreal, condensed in a name, a name to be eaten like the boiled rice that my other grandmother used to make when we were ill, with garlic, onion and bay — llorer in Catalan — a transparent name, green and blue, rustling like a cellophane wrapper when it’s crumpled; Lloret del Mar. In Lloret, my grandmother possessed a whole mountain, peaked and brown, between a blue-green sky, transparent like cellophane, and an aquamarine sea that seemed to be varnished, and on the mountain were three houses, like the three chairs, the three bowls of porridge and the three beds from Goldilocks and the Three Bears. And if it wasn’t marvellous enough that houses existed that were the real equivalents of those we composed in school with Caran d’Ache crayons and coloured paper, red-roofed houses, a path snaking up to the door and a chimney with columns of black smoke… and if it weren’t enough to spend the summer in these houses — four or five summers, enough to remember them as if in a dream: until my parents fell out with my grandmother and we didn’t go any more—, as if all this weren’t enough, the houses opened up like coffers and were full of treasures.
French to English: Critical texts on Louis Van Lint by Serge Goyens de Heusch [Extract] General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Source text - French 2. Un grand livre d'art en hommage au peintre abstrait Louis Van Lint Le ministre de la Communauté française vient de consacrer à notre grand peintre Louis Van Lint un livre de poids, avec une introduction de Philippe Roberts-Jones, et un premier mot d'accueil de Georges Sion qui interroge un autoportrait du peintre datant de 1944, exigeant miroir déjà de la liberté. Nous connaissons Van Lint depuis trente-cinq ans. Nous l'avons vu parfois souffrir de la solitude, s'interroger avec une certaine angoisse sur l'aventure des formes, mesurer la difficulté de se faire connaître au cœur d'une vie artistique internationale dominée par des circuits de vente, des officines écrasantes et des thuriféraires intéressés. Nous n'avons jamais vu Louis Van Lint découragé.	Translation - English 2. An important art book in homage to the abstract painter Louis Van LintL The President of the French Community in Belgium, has just dedicated a weighty text to our great painter Louis Van Lint, with an introduction by Philippe Robert-Jones, and an initial welcome message from Georges Sion, who analyses the painter’s self-portrait of 1944, which was already mirroring a distinctive sense of freedom. We have known Van Lint for some twenty-five years. We have seen him sometimes suffering from isolation, reflecting internally and with a certain anxiety on the adventure of form, assessing the difficulty of becoming known at the heart of an international artistic life dominated by trade circuits, soul-crushing agencies and biased eulogists. We have never seen Louis Van Lint discouraged.

PhD - Nottingham Trent University

Years of experience: 21. Registered at ProZ.com: Feb 2012.

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English (University of York: BA Hons.(Hons) in English and , verified)
French to English (University of York)
Spanish to English (Nottingham Trent University)

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'A dream of a contractor. High level of professionalism and politeness, high level of expertise and very responsive. Highly recommended.'

I am an English mother tongue, U.K.-based translator with a Masters and PhD in European Cultural Studies, specialising in:

French to English translation

Spanish to English translation

English editing of translations from French and Spanish to English

I have over 8 years' experience of French to English and Spanish to English translation and proofreading

I specialize in translation and proofreading in the fields of Academic Translation, Education, Social Sciences, Arts and Culture.

However my background in Classics as well as Romance Languages also allows me to make accurate and fluent translations of texts in fields that use Graeco-Roman terms, including Ophthalmology, Medicine, Technology, Architecture, Botany, Life Sciences and Oceanography.

I have a proven ability to produce texts that read extremely fluidly in English, to deadlines.
Clients include:

Private Client – Proofreading of a proposed journal article on multi-species protests.

Private Client – Fr > Eng translation of introduction to exhibition in Geneva - Photography and Installation Art

JPD Systems - Editing of Fr > Eng academic translation.

Cadenza Academic Translation - on long term project Fr > Eng academic translation: areas include: Anthropology, Philosophy, Literary Biography, Church History, Political Science, Aesthetic and Political Theory.

Wordbank – US > UK English localization of website texts, images and interactives

Villengua -– Sp > Eng translation of translation services web texts; Sp > Eng translation of CV and other professional documents

Swiss Solutions – Sole translator 26.000 Fr > Eng: Public Health Policy documents; post-editing of Fr > Sp > Eng medical texts.

The University of London – An editor for the Journal of Romance Studies, translation, editing Sp > Eng; static website research, construction and copy on theme of Women's Writing in French

Taylor and Francis/Berghahn Books - editing English text with some Romance Language content

Laura Freixas (writer and European Cultural Parliament member) - Sp > Eng translation for public reading

Prof. Hugo Vezzetti (University of Buenos Aires) - Sp > Eng summarization of work on Psychoanalysis.,

CCOO (Belgian cultural agency - Fr > Eng translation of critical texts on Fine Art)

Education and Training:

2003 PhD in European Cultural Studies, Nottingham Trent University Supervisor: Professor Anny Brooksbank Jones.

1996 MA (dist.), in European Arts and Humanities, De Montfort University, with the University of Granada, Spain and Hogeschool Katholieke, Leergangen, Tilburg, the Netherlands.

1985 RSA (B) Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Pilgrims, Canterbury.

1984 PGCE in Education, English and Drama, University of York.

1983 BA Hons. (2:1) in English and Related Literature, University of York.

Associations I am a member of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland

Skills: quick touch typing, basic html programming, photography for web use.

Current Rates:

Translation: 0.06-0.08 Euros per source word, depending on complexity of text
Editing: 0.025-0.04 Euros per source word, depending on complexity of edit

Proofreading 0.024 Euros per word or other by private agreement

If I can support you with your translating and editing projects, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you!

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Keywords: French to English translation, Spanish to English translation, copyediting, proofreading, copywriting, Arts, Culture, Sociology, Ophthalmology

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