About Me
About Me
My name is Roberta
I live in the beautiful city of Verona since 2014 though I was born in a little town in the south of Italy.
Since high school, I developed a strong passion for foreign languages, whether they were “dead” or not – though I’m not of the idea that Latin or Greek can be considered so. Although all my friends saw Cicero, Sallust, Aesop and Thucydides as the enemy in person, a catastrophe just as the plague or even worst, for me they became a guide to enter another world, one that was very different from all I already knew and that I can carry to the other side by using my own words.
For me to translate was not only a passion, but a source of inspiration, a goal and a conquest; nothing gave me more joy than the period marking the end of a sentence. Therefore, I decided to go to the University to study foreign languages, more precisely intercultural mediation. After graduating with a thesis intitled “The blog revolution: reporting war online”, I moved to Udine, in the north (very north!) of Italy to take my master’s degree in translation and cultural mediation. This time, my thesis contained a translation proposal for Katharine Susannah Prichard’s 1924 novel “Coonardoo”.
I started to work as a freelance translator for private clients and agencies, thus improving my knowledge and lexicon. Finally, I took a Master in medicine and pharmacology for interpreters and translators at CTI Communication in Milan. I’ve always been fascinated with the medical area; in fact, if it’s true that translation is important in many ways, medical translation is even more important as it plays a key role not only in the comprehension of a disease and its aspects but also in the efficacy of the cure.
Together with this specialization, I’ve never forgotten my love for literature and writing, as I think I used to devour books since the placenta! So, in 2022 I worked at the English version of “Lynfomane di Hitchcock” by Pina Nicoletta de Cicco, an ironic and autobiographic novel based on a subject I really care about. To translate Pina’s words was a good test both at an emotional level and as a professional, as the rendering of wordplays and cultural elements was a big challenge, but it was also extremely exciting. The book is available at Amazon in both versions, the Italian and the English one. The entire profit goes to Ail, Associazione Italiana contro le Lucemie – Linfomi e mieloma.
During the past years, I’ve also made different jobs in order not to close my reference points and to always learn new things. As I like to say, “life is 100% what you make of it!”