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A professional English into Russian Translator and Interpreter in Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Translation, Interpreting, Editing/proofreading, AI + Human review (MT post-editing), Transcription, Project management, Vendor management
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Specializes in:
Business/Commerce (general)
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Medical (general)
Medical: Health Care
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Marketing
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Rates per language pair: English to Russian - Standard rate: 0.11 USD per word
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Interpreting Volume: 5 days Completed: Mar 2012 Languages:
English to Russian
UNICEF and Magee Women's Hospital
Medical: Health Care
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Interpreting Volume: 5 days Completed: Dec 2011 Languages:
English to Russian
UN and UPMC Magee Women's Hospital
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Sample translations submitted: 1
Russian to English: Platonov's Biography for Platonov Festival in Voronezh, June 2011 General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Russian Андрей Платонович Платонов (1899-1951), самый таинственный и неправильный русский писатель ХХ столетия, прошел почти незамеченным мимо блестящих литературных зеркал эпохи, однако ни в одной писательской судьбе национальная жизнь России не проявилась так остро и ни в чьем другом творчестве трагедия осиротевшего в революцию народа не высказала себя столь глубоко и полно.
Родившийся в семье слесаря воронежских железнодорожных мастерских в последний год последнего века русского царства Платонов был не только писателем, драматургом, литературным критиком, философом, публицистом, поэтом, сценаристом, а также электротехником, мелиоратором, инженером, изобретателем, прорабом, он - явление сродни циклону, атмосферному фронту, возникающему на стыке холода и тепла, света и тьмы, сухости и влаги, ответ на вызовы революции и пути русского большевистского пешеходства.
Та чудовищная энергия, которая скопилась в России на рубеже веков и искала, в ком воплотиться, нашла в Платонове выход, неслучайно, само понятие энергии так много значило в его художественном мире и было предметом напряженных размышлений о возможности осуществления заявленного революцией. Через Платонова изломанным, надорванным, вырывавшимся из горла языком заговорило самое страшное время русской истории. Не отторгая, не брезгуя, не пряча глаз, но мучительно пытаясь понять, что происходит со страной и человеком, Платонов опустился на адово дно русского коммунизма, стал фигурой рубежа, подойдя к самой линии разрыва между жизнью и смертью, между Богом и человеком, человеком и машиной, человеком и природой. Он эти разрывы и соблазны кровавых утопий века пропустил через сердце, пытаясь соединить несоединимое, и быть может в этом пограничье и таится ключ к его творчеству и горькой, беспощадной судьбе.
О Платонове невозможно сказать, были ли он за или против Советской власти, насколько поддерживал или осуждал ее деяния, был разочарован в социализме или нет, хотя именно эти публицистические смыслы в нем пытались и пытаются по сей день отыскать и в России и на Западе. Однако Платонов выламывается из жестких рамок и простых определений и несет в себе высшую правду о божественной сути человека в обезбоженном мире. «Страна темна, а человек в ней светится». Краткая фраза из его записных книжек может служить своеобразной художественной формулой ХХ века, верной и по отношению к ГУЛАГу и к Великой победе. Она не примиряет, не снимает противоречий прошлого, но пеленгует далекую точку их пересечения и содержит тот глубокий смысл, который присущ всем его сочинениям от первых фантастических рассказов воронежского журналиста до волшебных сказок, написанных смертельно больным писателем, по легенде подметавшим двор Литературного института в Москве.
При жизни имя Андрея Платонова было не слишком известно читателю, а если и известно, то по большей части как повод к самой уничижительной и несправедливой критике, проходившей волнами через все его творчество от сталинской ругани на полях хроники «Впрок» до погромной статьи критика Ермилова в связи с рассказом «Семья Иванова».
Главные произведения писателя: повести «Котлован» и «Ювенильное море», романы «Чевенгур» и «Счастливая Москва», платоновские пьесы «Дураки на периферии», «Шарманка», «14 красных избушек» и неоконченный «Ноев ковчег» были опубликованы лишь много лет спустя после его смерти. Не принятый, не понятый, гонимый современниками, он прожил свою жизнь так, что десятилетия спустя мы судим о высотах и провалах русского века, о красном взрыве, обескровившем Россию, по Андрею Платонову. Не только по нему, но по нему – прежде и глубже всего. И через Андрея Платонова пытаемся понять, кто и что мы есть сегодня.
Алексей Варламов
Translation - English Andrey Platonovich Platonov (1899 - 1951), one of the most mysterious and incorrect Russian authors of the twentieth century, went almost unnoticed by the brilliant literature mirrors, reflecting the Soviet era. However, national Russian life has never been manifested so acutely in a writer's fate and no other writer’s work has spoken so deeply and completely of the tragedy of a nation bereaved by Revolution.
Born in the family of a Voronezh railway locksmith in the last year of the last century of Russian monarchy, Platonov was not only a writer, playwright, literary critic, philosopher, publisher, poet and script writer, but also an electrician, irrigation engineer, engineer, inventor and foreman. He is an event akin a cyclone, an atmospheric front which occurs at the junction of cold and heat, light and darkness, aridity and moisture. He is the answer to the challenge of the revolution and to the ways of Russian Bolshevism movement. The bloodcurdling energy accumulated in Russia at the turn of the centuries was looking to be incarnated in someone, and found its embodiment in Platonov. It is no coincidence that the notion of energy meant so much in his artistic world and was the subject of intense thought as to whether the aspirations of the Revolution were feasible. The most terrible time in Russian history spoke through Platonov in a broken, strained language, as if spoken by a tongue torn from its throat. Platonov reached the hellish nadir of Russian Communism without rejection, loathing, and hiding his head, but in a painful attempt to understand what was going on in the country and in human beings. Platonov became a frontier character at the dividing line between life and death, God and human, human and machine, human and nature. He let those ruptures and challenges of the bloody never-never land of the twentieth century pass through his heart, trying to find connections between uncombined events, and it is this frontier spirit that offers a key to his art and his bitter and ruthless fate.
It is impossible to say whether Platonov was for or against Soviet power, how much he supported or condemned its actions, whether he was disappointed in socialism or not, although this has not stopped people attempting to find answers to such questions, whether in Russia or the West. Yet Platonov breaks out of all boundaries and simplistic definitions, and carries the ultimate truth about the divine human core in a world shorn of God. "The country is dark, but a person in it is shining". A short phrase from his note books serves as an artistic metaphor for the twentieth century, true to both the Gulag and the Great Victory of 1945. This truth doesn't conciliate or erase past contradictions, but it finds direction of their distant junction point, and contains a profound meaning inherent in all his works, from the first stories written by a young journalist from Voronezh, to the folk tales, written by a dying writer, who was alleged to earn his living by working as a sweeper in a Literature College in Moscow.
Readers did not know the name of Andrey Platonov well while he was alive and if they were familiar with it, it was because his name was the subject of the most abasing and unfair criticism, surging through his art, from a Stalin-era abuse on the margins of the manuscript of “Vprok” to a scathing article by Ermolov concerning the short story “The Return”.
The principle works of the author include: the novellas, “The Foundation Pit” and “The Juvenile Sea”; novels “Chevengur” and “Happy Moscow”, screenplays “Fools on the Periphery”, “The Barrel Organ”, “14 Little Red Huts” and the unfinished “Noah’s Ark” were published many years after Platonov’s death.
Written by Alexey Varlamov
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Translation education
Master's degree - Voronezh State University
Experience
Years of experience: 4. Registered at ProZ.com: Jan 2009.
Professionally trained English to Russian translator and interpreter with a M.A. in Linguistics and Translation Studies and 5+ years of experience, including experience in Localization Project Management. I also hold a Master's degree in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh.
Associate member of American Translators Association (ATA) and the National Capital Area Translators Association (NCATA). I abide by ATA's Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
Translation specialization - medical, healthcare, marketing, technical (mining, automotive) and immigration.
Interpreting specialization - consecutive, escort, and community in healthcare and courts (depositions and mediations).
CAT tools - MemoQ (primary), Studio 2011, SDL Trados, Trados 2007, Idiom World Server, Word Fast, Deja Vu.
Translation output - 2,000 words/day
Editing and proofreading - 6,000 words/day
Interpretation - to 8 hours of consecutive interpreting with a 2-hour minimum
Primary CAT Tool is MemoQ but I also have a strong working knowledge of Trados 2007, Studio 2011 and 2014, SDL Trados, Idiom World Server and Word Fast.
My desktop publishing skills include InDesign 3.0 - 7.0, FrameMaker 10.0, Publisher, and Adobe Illustrator.
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