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English to Portuguese: Jane Austen Biography and works General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: History
Source text - English Jane Austen was a major English novelist, whose brilliantly witty, elegantly structured satirical fiction marks the transition in English literature from 18th century neo-classicism to 19th century romanticism.
Jane Austen was born on 16 December, 1775, at the rectory in the village of Steventon, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire. The seventh of eight children of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra, she was educated mainly at home and never lived apart from her family. She had a happy childhood amongst all her brothers and the other boys who lodged with the family and whom Mr Austen tutored. From her older sister, Cassandra, she was inseparable. To amuse themselves, the children wrote and performed plays and charades, and even as a little girl Jane was encouraged to write. The reading that she did of the books in her father's extensive library provided material for the short satirical sketches she wrote as a girl.
At the age of 14 she wrote her first novel, Love and Freindship(sic) and then A History of England by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian, together with other very amusing juvenilia. In her early twenties Jane Austen wrote the novels that were later to be re-worked and published as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey. She also began a novel called The Watsons which was never completed.
Translation - Portuguese Jane Austen foi uma romancista inglesa da mais alta importância, cujas obras ficcionais, satíricas, brilhantemente divertidas e elengantemente estruturadas, marcaram a transição entre o neo-classicismo do seculo 18 e o romantismo do seculo 19 na literatura inglesa.
Jane Austen nasceu em 16 de dezembro de 1775 na residencia de um clérigo anglicano na aldeia de Steventon, próxima de Basingstone, em Hampshire. Sétima dos oito filhos do Reverendo George Austen e de sua esposa Cassandra, ela foi educada principalmente em casa e jamais viveu afastada da família. Ela teve uma infância feliz em meio aos irmãos e a outros meninos que alugavam quartos em sua residencia e que eram educados pela Sra Austen. Ela era inseparável de sua irma mais velha, Cassandra. Como diversão as crianças tinham por habito escrever e interpretar peças teatrais e mimicas e, mesmo ainda criança Jane era encorajada a escrever. Os livros que ela leu e que faziam parte da extensa biblioteca de seu pai forneceram o material por ela usado como inspiração para escrever a sua primeira estoria satírica, quando era ainda uma menina.
Aos 14 anos ela escreveu o seu primeiro romance, ' Love and Friendship' e, logo após uma História da Inglaterra segundo um historiador parcial, preconceituoso e ignorante, juntamente com outros contos juvenis. Aos vinte e poucos anos, Jane Austen escreveu os romances que, mais tarde, foram reelaborados e publicados como Senso e Sensibilidade, Orgulho e Preconceito e Northanger Abbey. Ela também deu inicio ao romance chamado ' The Watsons' que nunca foi completado
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Years of experience: 28. Registered at ProZ.com: Jun 2012.
I was born in Brzil from a British mother and a Brazilian father. At the ag of 5 , we all moved to England and I stayed there until I was 16, which means that I went to school there and even became literate there. Back to Brazil, to get my own money I started giving english private classes to school mates
I did my Graduation course in Brazil, in History, at PUC/RJ. After the University I went to Italy for a two-year post graduation course in art history and critics but I ended up living in Florence for 8 years
In 1995, already back to Brazil again and while I was attending my Master course in Social History, I started a University coiurse in translation also at PUC;RJ and, a bit afterwards I started working full time for three Editing Houses in Rio, Record, Civilização Brasileira and Bertrand Brasil.
After 4 years working exclusevely with literary translations, I restarted giving classes and attended a course of simultaneous and consecutive interpreting. Nowadays, I`m still working as a teacher but just teaching instrumental english and translation, I work with both technical and literary translations and as an interpreter
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