Bio

French student, born in 1993, living in Avignon, France. She finished her A-Levels at the Saint Joseph de Avignon secondary school in 2011. She has felt a true passion for languages from a young age, so she holds a degree in AFL (Applied Foreign Languages: English and Spanish) from the University of Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse. In line with the Erasmus programme, during the last year of her degree she spent six months in Seville, Spain. She studied information technology, history and languages at the University of Pablo de Olavide. She also discovered the translation of software, web pages and video games.

Upon her return to Avignon, she enrolled in the Masters in the Translation of Software and New Technology programme (2014-2016). She carried this out online with the International University of Menéndez Pelayo and the Instituto Superior de Estudios Lingüísticos y Traducción de Sevilla. During these two years she translated from English and Spanish into French, her native language.

This young girl is passionate about contemporary literature and has carried out a twelve week internship programme for Algo para Traducir. She was responsible for the French version of the website, among other tasks.

Translated by Sinead Rowley-Smith

Sinead Rowley-Smith studied Modern European Languages at the University of Liverpool and holds a degree in German, Spanish and Italian. Studying a range of different languages and cultures opened her eyes to the world of literature and she has a particular interest in reading Italian Giallo novels and Hispanic literature.

As part of her degree Sinead spent time abroad and studied the History of Cinema and Classic Italian Literature at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. She then went on to work as an English language teacher in Austria. After graduating she moved to Spain to continue her work as a teacher and finally made Seville her home three years ago.

Sinead has always had a passion for translation and was able to realise her dreams of becoming a translator when she moved to Spain. She is currently studying a Master’s Degree specialising in Medical Translation in Seville and has been combining her studies with freelance translation and her work as an English teacher. Her translation experience has been quite varied so far; she has translated a wide range of texts of both a technical and creative nature, as well as having experience in subtitling and web localisation.

Sinead is currently embarking on a new phase in her professional life. She is able to utilise her knowledge of the complexity of the English language gained through her career as an English teacher together with her profound understanding of Spanish culture to realise her translations. She hopes to establish herself as a successful freelance translator in the near future.

Jess Parsons holds a Master's in Conference Interpreting and Translation Studies from the University of Leeds.

She is an avid reader and freelance translator working from Spanish and Portuguese into English, and has also worked as a project manager and language consultant in IT.

Having spent time in Mexico and Brazil, her main interest is in contemporary Latin American literature, though her love of reading and languages extends to the whole of the Lusophone and Hispanophone world.

She contributes occasionally with Algo para Traducir’s team since September 2015.