Languages

Expertise

Advertising • Finance / Economics (general) • International Development/Cooperation • Literature / Poetry • Travel & Tourism

About me

English to Portuguese translator, technical and literary.

Qualifications

Education

 

Experience

 Most recent technical translations in the areas of: advertising (for furniture), business correspondence (including employee surveys), costumer agreements (for financial products), financial data bases (user instructions and questionnaires), investment funds (prospects), law firms (extensive report on Portuguese and Latin-American markets), legal and social services (informative leaflets), legal issues (contract management systems and litigation correspondence), magazine articles (fashion, design, architecture, etc.), professional training (business coaching, etc.), safety data sheets (for chemical products), software (for office applications and medical equipment), sports (small biographies of several football players), technical manuals (for fitness machines, GPS systems, electric tools, etc.), website texts (music industry).

 Translation of the following books (since 1999):

  - Frozen Desire, by James Buchan
  - The Two Faces of Economics, by Anthony Dalston Dawson
  - The Financial Times Guide to Business Numeracy, by Leo Gough
  - Terra Incognita, by Sara Wheeler
  - Deadly Embrace, by Jackie Collins
  - To the Last City, by Colin Thubron
  - Warriors of God, by James Reston, Jr.
  - Lenin: A Biography, by Robert Service
  - South, by Ernest Shackleton
  - Occidentalism, by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
  - When God Laughs, by Jack London
  - The Human Story, by Robin Dunbar
  - A Sultan in Palermo, by Tariq Ali
  - Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation, by Olivia Judson

 Experience in movie subtitling (35 projects for movies and TV series released on DVD).

References

Interests

My Software

Déja Vu / SDLX / TRADOS