Aware, calm, committed, communicative, content, creative, dependable, experienced, informed, imaginative, mindful, passionate, pensive, professional, reliable, stimulating, trustworthy, truthful and vibrant. This is not an alphabetical list of random words; nor is it lip-service to ‘values’ – it is a list of all the things that I need to be while translating a document for a client. As Folkvang Engelsk specialises in English language services for authors (fiction & non-fiction), the arts, academia, museums and cultural institutions and complementary therapists, it requires much more than skills in just Danish, English, translation and writing. By the way – why Folkvang Engelsk? Well, I wante
I’m a book nerd – do you know that empty feeling of finishing a book and wanting more? Well, that’s me. I get engrossed and I usually have a few books ‘on the go’: something new – currently David Hair, Lone Vitus and Maria Helleberg. a classic – there’s a long list here – but I love The Forsyte Saga, The Woman in White and The Moonstone. something easy – this is for when my brain can’t take in new plot twists and turns, but I still want to read, so I usually turn to Agatha Christie or Sue Townsend or J.K. something historical – I’m a big fan of Pat Barker and James Clavell, but I can’t get enough of Susanne Clod Pedersen’s Arnulf series (and – yes – full disclosure, I did translate Arnulf).
