Volha Ryzmakova

Languages

Mother tongue

Belarusian, Russian

Translates from

Finland Swedish

Translates to

Belarusian

Other language skills

English, Finnish

Education

Academic degree

Bachelor degree in Humanities, Minsk State Linguistic University, 1994 - 1999 (Specialization – English and Belarusian Language and Literature)

Additional subject-specific studies

Swedish language course - as "third" foreign language at Minsk State Linguistic University, 1996 - 1999
Swedish language summer courses in Sweden, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005
Course for Fiction Translators (Swedish – Belarusian), Baltic Centre for Writers and translators, Visby, 2007
IASS Study Conference “Adaption, Interpretation, Transformation”, Lund University, 2010
Finnish language course - at the Centre for International Studies in Minsk, 2011 - 2014
Finnish language courses in Finland, 2014, 2015, 2016

Translations

Interests and specialisation

Fiction, Prose

List of translations

Папулярная музыка з Вітулы / Popular music from Vittula. Logvinau Publishing House , 2010. Original title: Populärmisik från Vittula by Mikael Niemi. Genre: Prose. Awarded 1st prise for debut translation by Belarusian PEN Centre

The History of Finland / Гісторыя Фінляндыі. Mastatskaya litaratura” publishing house , 2017. Original title: Finlands historia by Henrik Meinander. Genre: Non-fiction.

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