Fredrika Edström Klay
FREELANCE SWEDISH TRANSLATOR
20143 47th Ave NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
Phone +1 206 489-4914
E-mail: translation@edstroementerprises.com
www.edstroementerprises.com or www.swedishtranslation.com

LANGUAGES Swedish to English or English to Swedish
I grew up bilingual in the U.S. and Sweden. Swedish is my dominant language.
18 years in Sweden, 30 years in the U.S.
SERVICES Part-time freelance translator
1999-present
2000 words a day
PC, MS Word, WordPerfect, Adobe Acrobat, Windows
Law, Business, Medical, Technical and Computing Dictionaries
Nordstedt's Swedish Dictionary
TRANSLATION
EXPERIENCE		 Law: birth certificate, lawsuits, wills, code of conduct
 Technical: instruction manuals for electrical products, reports
Computing: web sites and general marketing for computer software
Business: sales contracts, annual report, survey forms
General: pamphlet, business card, personal letters, magazine articles
Academic: transcripts
EDUCATION

M.A. English, 1997
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

B.A. Education, 1990
University of Gävle/Sandviken, Gävle, Sweden
RELEVANT
COURSES

Literary Translation, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics
Business English
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS

American Translators Association (ATA)
1999-Present (ATA accreditation exam for Swedish /English is not available.)
Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society (NOTIS)
1999-Present
American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)
1999-Present
National Association of Judiciary Interpreters & Translators (NAJIT)
1999-Present
SUBSCRIPTIONS Månads Journalen - a monthly Swedish journal, which includes articles by contemporary Swedish writers and reporters and sections on current political issues, artists, musicians and interior design.
TRANSLATION
PREFERENCE

My focus is on literary and legal translations, but I also translate business documents and web sites, manuals and patents, general documents and texts in the fields of music, literature and education.
REFERENCES Available upon request