Translator & Linguist

As a language practitioner, Isabel is a Chartered Linguist and has extensive experience in literary, documentary, institutional, and technical translation; copywriting and scriptwriting; lexicography and terminology; authoring and voicing language-learning material; referencing/documentation; and tutoring, mentoring and lecturing in creative writing and translation.

 

For over two decades, she worked as a full-time translator and reviser, and later as Head of the Terminology & Reference Section, in a United Nations specialised agency with HQ in London (International Maritime Organisation - IMO).

 

Isabel's most recent literary translation is 'Equidistant Voices', an anthology of sixteen Latin American poets who currently live in the UK. 

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