Languages & Background:
Native Languages: English, Hebrew
Born in England, 1973; immigrated to
Israel, 1980; immigrated to the U.S., 1997
Freelance translation, editing,
copyediting, proofreading
Specialization Areas:
Legal, Business, Marketing
Literary, Academic (Social Sciences,
Arts, Humanities), Journalism, Correspondence
Professional Memberships:
American Literary Translators
Association (Board Member 2007-2010)
American Translators Association (Active
Member)
Israel Translators Association
New York Circle of Translators
Northwest Translators & Interpreters
Society
PEN American Center
Awards & Grants:
American Translators Association Student
Translation Award, 2000
Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS)
Grant, U.S. Department of Education, Summer 2000
Published Translations:
Amir Gutfreund, The World a Moment
Later.
New Milford: Toby Press, forthcoming, 2008
David Grossman, Writing in the Dark.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, forthcoming, 2008
Tom Segev, 1967: Israel, the War,
and the Year That Transformed the Middle East. New York:
Metropolitan Books, 2007
Amir Gutfreund, Our Holocaust.
New Milford: Toby Press, 2006
Winner of the Sami Rohr Choice Award,
2007
Yael Hedaya, Accidents. New
York: Metropolitan Books, 2005
David Grossman, Her Body Knows.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005
Winner of the Koret Jewish Fiction
Award, 2006
Ronit Matalon: Bliss. New
York: Metropolitan Books, 2003
Three poems by Yehonatan Geffen,
Beacons 6 (2000)
Editorial Work:
Translation editing
for the Hebrew edition of The Ministry of Special Cases by
Nathan Englander. Jerusalem: Keter, 2008
Compilation of bibliography and
transliteration for Modern Hebrew Fiction by Gershon Shaked.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000
Education:
Localization Certificate, University of
Washington Extension / Seattle, WA (2004)
M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and
Cultures / Indiana University (2001)
Graduate Certificate of Literary
Translation / Indiana University (2001)
Literary translation workshop, New York
State Summer Writers Institute / Skidmore College, NY (1999)
B.A. in English Literature, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem / Israel (1997)
Employment:
Freelance Translator / 1998 - present
Translation of commercial and literary
materials for translation agencies, direct clients and publishers
Translation of theses, dissertations and
research for students and professors
Editing and proofreading of translations
Software Localization and Quality
Assurance, Microsoft - Middle East Product Development Group /
Redmond, WA / February-June 1998
Hebrew localization of Office 2000
applications
Monitoring and quality assurance of
outsourced localization
Designing and testing of localization
tools
General translation work, including
legal documents and product packaging
Bilingual Secretary & Translator,
Ephraim Abramson & Co. Law Offices / Jerusalem, Israel / July 1996 -
June 1997
Translation, editing and proofreading of
legal documents and correspondence
Computer Equipment:
Hardware:
PC (Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz, 2 GB of RAM)
Cable internet connection
Laser printer
Internet fax service
Scanner
Software:
Windows XP Professional
Office 2003 Professional
(English/Hebrew)
Adobe Acrobat 7.0
Wordfast 5.0
DavkaWriter Platinum 3.0
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