Valentina Mellone

Consultant, Entrepreneur, Writer/Editor

I am an Italian native-speaker freelance translator and I currently live in Italy. I translate from English and French into Italian. My specialties are adaptation of marketing texts, especially for the tourism & hospitality and fashion & jewelry industries; localization of websites and video games; translation and QC of subtitles for movies and TV shows. I graduated in Translation and Interpreting and then obtained a Master's Degree with honors in Literary and Technical Translation (specialty fields: tourism, subtitling and computer game localization). I also attended a Postgraduate Master Course in Translation of Post-Colonial Texts from English into Italian (Literature, Essays, Drama and Cinema). As part of this course program, I worked in a publishing house, translating articles and proofreading English and Italian texts. Thanks to this experience, I further developed my precision and attention to details. I also attended a course in Translation of Young Adult Fiction from English into Italian. I translated in team the English subtitles of the film "Dying in Athens" by Nikos Panayotopoulos, showed at the 8th European Film Festival in Lecce (Italia) in 2007. I believe that CPD is of the utmost importance, so I regularly attend conferences and webinars about localization, marketing, new media, etc. I attended an online course about software and website localization and an online course about translation for the fashion industry. I also attended a creative writing course (prose, poetry, drama, comics) and some of my poems in Italian have been published in anthologies celebrating International Women's Day in 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2021. I am a member of the translator team Words in Travel, specialized in the Travel & Tourism industry: http://wordsintravel.weebly.com/ I am the founder and one of the administrators of the Translators and Interpreters from Puglia and Basilicata Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TraduttoriInterpretiPugliesi/

reading, writing, watching movies and TV series, literature, science fiction, fantasy, video games, fashion, beauty & make-up, popularisation of science, politics.

Fashion, Literature, localization, subtitling, Tourism, video games