{"id":2939,"date":"2026-09-14T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iti-frenchnetwork.co.uk\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:56:16","slug":"rebecca-nicholls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iti-frenchnetwork.co.uk\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Nicholls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rebecca Nicholls<\/a> is a French to English translator and a writer with a background in film, television and publishing.<\/p>\n

Who are you? Please introduce yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a translator (French to British English only) and writer, originally from the UK, but I spent ten years of my professional life working between Paris and London. Before moving into translation, I worked for twenty years on the international side of film and television marketing and distribution. My career started in Australia, and I travelled all over the world with my work, which gave me a lifelong interest in cross-cultural communication. I\u2019m now building my freelance translation practice alongside a small number of long-standing clients. I\u2019m a recent qualified member of ITI, and have been a qualified member of CIOL since 2022.<\/p>\n

Do you translate, interpret, or both? What are your areas of specialism?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a translator and writer (in English), not an interpreter. I have a special interest in literary translation, while script translation and adaptation make up the majority of my work. Within that, my micro-specialism is fast-turnaround translations of current affairs content. I am a news junkie and worked in current affairs and documentaries for most of my television career. I enjoy subtitling, but it doesn\u2019t make up a regular part of my work at the moment. I have started working with arts and culture content, and with marketing and communications, and would love to grow those specialisms. I also really enjoy certified translations, which make a nice change of pace from the content that I mostly work with.<\/p>\n

Why did you decide to get into translation or interpreting?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have always written fiction, but in 2020 I was suffering from writer\u2019s block for the first time in my life. A colleague in Paris had been let down by a translator and asked for my help. Working on those texts, I found that the words which had been blocked were suddenly flowing, and that I could use my background \u2013 the fact that I knew exactly who the translation was aimed at, and could angle the pitch to work well for them in English \u2013 to create something that would give my colleague the perfect pitch for his clients. I remembered how much I had loved translation back at Durham when I was studying for my bachelor\u2019s. It was a revelation, and I signed up to start preparing for the DipTrans the very next week.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favourite type of project?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I enjoy projects where I can combine my writing skills with my background in international television and publishing. It might be a creative project working directly with a book\u2019s author and ensuring that their voice is preserved in the English version, or it might be a documentary where my understanding of the subject, the audience, and the wider market context really matters. I\u2019d like to do more book translation alongside my audiovisual work. I would also like to do more projects where I can work collaboratively with other linguists, sharing ideas and tackling tricky choices together.<\/p>\n

What do you do outside of translation or interpreting?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I write urban fantasy stories; my latest novel is Dragon Spawned<\/em>, which you can find here: https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/stores\/author\/B08JQGSSF2\/.<\/a><\/p>\n

I live in London and love the theatre (not musicals), galleries (quiet ones), documentary film festivals and my writers\u2019 group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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