cv - Daniel Olafsson, legal financial and technical translation

DANIEL OLAFSSON
T +44 (0)75-3560-0513
PROFILE
LANGUAGES
English & Icelandic to a high standard.
French & German (read, spoken, written) Danish (read, written)
German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish (read)
EXPERIENCE
PROFESSION
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With a life-long passion for languages, I’ve studied nine western European languages and speak four
fluently. I also have qualifications in Mathematics, Architecture and Law, which I continue to study
privately. I am a keen writer and began my first book when I was seventeen years old.
Freelance translator, London, U.K.
2008My experience includes translations from various Scandinavian languages, English, French and
German to English and Icelandic. I specialize in legal translations and my experience includes the
translation of:
EDUCATIION
Contracts,
Evidence,
Appeal Statements,
Legal notices,
Minutes of various types of meetings,
Case files for the Supreme Court of Iceland,
Rulings of the Supreme Court of Iceland,
Annual reports,
Certificates,
Interrogations,
Patents,
Medical translations for the NHS,
etc.
LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
London, U.K. — Bachelor of Architecture, 2011-2014
UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND
Reykjavik, Iceland — Icelandic, Mathematics 2009
UNIVERSITY OF AKUREYRI
Akureyri, Iceland — Comparative law, 2008ECOLE SPECIAL D’ARCHITECTURE
Paris, France — Architecture, 2007-2008
SCHOLA AKUREYRENSIS
Akureyri, Iceland — Physics/Mathematics 2002-2007
LYCEE PONCELET
St. Avold, France — Première littéraire 2004-2005
OTHER EXP.
2008 - 5 month leave to study German in Berlin.
2013 - One month at BSI where I studied German up to B1 CEFR.
REFERENCES
Available upon request
216 STOCKWELL ROAD, SW9 9SU, LONDON, U.K.