Working languages:
French to English
English to French

Venetia Valin
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France
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Native in: English 
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Experience Years of experience: 50. Registered at ProZ.com: Jul 2012.
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Bio

British, American and French national. French > < English. Native English speaker. Bilingual, bicultural. I have lived for the last 25 years in France with regular trips to the US.

Connecticut College graduate, BA in History, specialization China and Japan.

Recent work:

Musée Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris: FR>EN translation of texts for labels and subtitling of videos for "Ocean: Diving into the Unknown", a major exhibition at the Grande Galérie de l'Évolution", ouverture avril 2019

FR>EN Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art: The Guide, 141 pages.

Musée de l’Homme. Paris. FR>EN translation of 6 temporary exhibitions.

Palexpo, Geneva. EN<>FR content for dinosaur exhibition.

Semitour, Périgeux. FR>EN website and blog.

Zend+co, Paris. FR>EN video, book, proposal for museographer.

Atélier Daynes, Paris. FR>EN exhibition catalogue and artist's bio.

Musée de l’Homme, Paris. FR>EN texts for 4 temporary exhibitions and 9 films. Subjects: ethnology, archaeology, anthropology, prehistory, population genetics, ethnomusicology, ecology, ethno-biology, architecture, museography.

Musée de l’Homme, Paris. Centre de Documentation Germaine Tillion. FR>EN translation of 16 documents on medicine, prehistory, history, biography.

Lascaux International Exhibition, Geneva. FR>EN additional content and texts on prehistoric discoveries in the Geneva area complementing the exhibition.

FR>EN translation of lasscauxaparis.com and theartofthebrick.fr, exhibitions in Paris, Porte de Versailles.

"Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave: the First Masterpiece of Humanity" by Pedro Lima. Translated from the French for Éditions Synops. 200 pages. Translations for the dedicated website.

Catalogue accompanying Elisabeth Daynès' exhibition of reconstructions from our ancestors' skulls.

Academic translations in history, politics, criminology, sociology/philosophy, ethnology.

French to English, English to French in the areas of education and pedagogy.

Translated the catalogue and rewrote the English texts for the Lascaux International Exhibition currently at Palexpo, Geneva.

"The Many Metamorphoses of Lascaux" by Pedro Lima. Translated from the French for Éditions Synops. 200 pages. Catalog accompanying the Lascaux International Exhibition.

6 years experience as associate publisher of children's books in Paris.

Lived 18 years in Asia and Western Europe as a French diplomat's wife, serving as unofficial translator, speechwriter and interpreter for French ministers, ministerial delegations and companies.

Most of my life has been spent writing and translating and I thoroughly enjoy researching and rewriting until the text sounds as though it has not been translated. Pricing is per source word.

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Apr 15, 2021



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