About me

I am an English > French and Italian > French freelance translator who left Paris to live in Belgium (Flanders) in 2009. I am currently learning Dutch; I sometimes do voluntary Dutch to French translations for Trias, a NGO focusing on sustainable development.

I maintain an active profile at Proz and client testimonials can be found here.

I occasionnally do voluntary translations for Translators Without Borders and TEDTalks.

I am a member of SFT, the professional association for French translators.

You can e-mail me at sabine.sur [AT] gmail [DOT] com.

Portfolio

Online articles

I have written articles about legal translation, IT and language for the Transenter blog. You can read the English posts here and here and the French posts here.

Available translations on the web

I also translate blog posts into French for Patrizia Pepe’s blog (2010-2011).

Books

All I Know About Management I Learned From My Dog/Le management vu par mon chien, Diateino

Get a dog for company? Martin Levin doesn’t buy it. Yet one day, as he goes more or less reluctantly to a dog shelter, he falls for the brown eyes of a golden retriever called Angel. When he brings his new dog back home, his five decades of experience in management prove just good enough to train her. A quick and entertaining read full of sound advice on management and corporate spirit, complete with life lessons and the lovely story of a 91-year old man still brimming with ideas and projects.

Stitch With Love/Brodez avec amour, Mandy McShaw, éditions de Saxe
20 easy projects to start stitching, including patterns for bags and illustrated how-tos for left-handed crafsters. A book to browse for endless inspiration and enjoyment.

Services

My main working fields are law, medicine (general), IT, fashion. I also do subtitling, tourism, telecommunications, literary translations. My background is literary.