{"id":2,"date":"2009-02-20T09:32:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T09:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-08-14T16:31:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T16:31:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Lambert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Translation is about getting the voice right, whether it&#8217;s a novel, a government report, a company history, a museum exhibition, a theatre review, a training course, a website, an academic article or a book of designer knitting patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I translate from Swedish and Finnish into British English. My BA degree was originally in European history, although it gradually gained more languages and literature as time went on, and I especially enjoy translation jobs that combine translation and historical research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the Published translations and Samples sections for an idea of the books I have translated and the literary samples I have translated for Nordic publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other recent major projects include the online guide for Ark56, the Blekinge Archipelago biosphere reserve in Sweden, the memoirs of Dr Rolf Kostmann in 1940s Swedish Lapland, and a Finnish museum exhibition on sunken ships in the Baltic which involved translating both 20th-century diving logs and the letters of Catherine the Great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.societyofauthors.org\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_campaign=Widget%20clicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.societyofauthors.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SOA_Member_rgb.png\" alt=\"Member of the Society of Authors Link\" style=\"width:197px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MITI-logo-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-283\" style=\"width:242px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MITI-logo-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MITI-logo-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MITI-logo-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MITI-logo-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MITI-logo-1-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MITI-logo-1-1568x1568.png 1568w, https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MITI-logo-1.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Member of the Swedish-English Literary Translators&#8217; Association (SELTA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translation is about getting the voice right, whether it&#8217;s a novel, a government report, a company history, a museum exhibition, a theatre review, a training course, a website, an academic article or a book of designer knitting patterns. I translate from Swedish and Finnish into British English. My BA degree was originally in European history,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kate Lambert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katelambert.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}