About Me
About me
Kompass Translations is owned and run by Melanie Hersey. I am a freelance translator and native speaker of British English based in Cambridge, UK. I have been working as a freelance translator and proofreader (German and French into English) for numerous translation agencies and direct clients across Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland since 2001.
I translate in many different fields including travel and tourism, marketing, general business, jewellery and watch-making, social sciences, art and fashion. I am highly organised and adept at meeting tight deadlines.
Qualifications
qualifications
MA in Modern European Languages and Cultures (specialising in French and German translation), University of Durham 1999-2000.
MA dissertation: ‘Language and Culture: Universalism, Relativism and the Practice of Translation’.
BA (1st class honours) in French, German and anthropology with distinction in spoken German, University of Durham 1996-1999
Translated publications to date
Faure, Bernard, Unmasking Buddhism (2009)
Déroche, François, ‘Written Transmission’, in The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an, ed. by Andrew Ripley (2006)
Guilaine, Jean and Jean Zammit, Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory (2005)