Profile of the owner

Silvia Dell’Isola’s Language Studio has been operating in the translation sector since 1992.

Education

• Master of Literary Translation from English into Italian and Spanish into Italian organised by the Centro di Poesia Contemporanea dell’Università di Bologna (2004)

• Degree in Translating and Interpreting Spanish and English from the Istituto per Mediatori Linguistici Carlo Bo (1993)

Main specialisation courses taken in Italy

• Strategic Marketing and Operational Marketing Course, held by Finsa Scrl, Genoa with support from the Provincial Government of Genoa (2006)

• “International Business Contracts” Seminar, organised by AITI Emilia Romana (2005)

• III Day on Literary Translation, organised by the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, attending the seminar “Spagnolo, spagnoli”given by Bruno Arpaia (2005)

• “Translation and Localisation of Publicity Communications ”Seminar, organised by AITI Emilia Romana (2004)

• “Security of Information Technology in the Work Place” Seminar held by Buffer S.r.l. with the support of AITI Liguria (2005)

• English-Italian Legal Translation Course organised by AITI Lombardia, with specific attention to the differences between the regulations of common law and the Italian legal system (2004)

• “The Publishing Translator and Translating for Publishing ” Course and Laboratory organised by AITI Lombardia (2003)

• Specialised Course for Euro Technical Translators lasting 700 hours, organised by the ’Istituto di Formazione Professionale F.Santi, Genoa, Italy (1994)

Main Specialist Courses and Conventions Attended Abroad

• ProZ 4th Conference in Buenos Aires, attended seminars held by Alicia María Zorilla “Las normas de la lengua española, pilares de la traducción” and “Redacción clara en Español” organised by Mariana Bozzetti and Pedro Mairal (2006)

• BCLT Summer School, University of East Anglia, awarded a grant by the British Centre for Literary Translation (2005)

• Intensive Seminar dealing with Translation and Localisation (2002) held by Bert Esselink and Frank Austermühl, organised by the Consortium for the Training of Translation Teachers at the University of Rovira and Virgili, Tarragona, Spain