Nuno Morais (translator)

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An author who translates, who better to understand what you have in mind?

I write fiction and I enjoy it tremendously. Unfortunately, this is not my main occupation.

How many of us can say they live off their writing, although this is probably a dream we all share? 

Before I started writing my own stories, I translated other people´s work, fiction mostly, but also some coffee-table books (do these count as fiction?) and some books about science (Carl Sagan comes to mind). Most of the time, though, I translate business documents and I act as impromptu interpreter between some of the languages I speak. This has given me a fairly broad spectrum of day to day vocabulary and current usage of these languages, which I find advantageous when writing, and consider a plus when translating.

I am a Portuguese native speaker, proficient in English, Spanish, French and Italian and conversant in Swedish. During my business career I have, at one time or another, translated and interpreted into all these languages.

Here I only propose to translate your fiction into Portuguese, as I believe fiction, more than any other writing, should be translated by natives of the recipient language.

Should this be of interest to you, let me know.

 

Native language: Portuguese
Translates from: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish
Translates into: Portuguese


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