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About Me
I studied translation at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and have been working as a free-lance translator since 1994. During all these yearsI have translated many and many pages, mainly from German and French into Italian. What I like most are articles for newspapers, novels and essays. I also have my own blog that I have been writing for the past year and a half. I live in Torino but travel as much as I can, and that makes a great part of my life experience.
- Location:
- Italy, Torino
- Current organization:
- October 2009: Ren
- Gender:
- Female
- Areas of expertise:
- Literature, Art, Music, Travelling
- Associations:
- UPT, Unione Provinciale Traduttori
- Languages:
- Italian, German, French, Spanish
- My website links:
- note di vita, Cristina Vezzaro personal page
- Universities:
- ETI, Universit
More About Me
I'm passionate about
people, travelling, books, jazz, movies, art, photography
An idea worth spreading
Translators are authors, the images they have when they interprete a writer's words are unique and their cultural and linguistic translation is unique, too. So ideally there is one perfect translator for every author: I found out about that while translating my last novel, where the main character had my first name, was my age, was listening to my music and was living a great love story just like I was. And the book tells about events that occured in my childhood. It was an epiphany to me that my incounscious thoughts had led me to a translation that would have been different had I not been the person I was at the time I was doing that job. Obvious? Sure. But that's when I realized I was not "simply translating" but actually writing, in my own words, a book. And the Italian readers (not many, I know, but still) will live the story only through me. Isn't that exciting?
Talk to me about
people, literature, art, economy, jazz, music, love, writing
People don't know that I'm good at
knitting, cooking, listening, making jewellery
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