I am a writer and my first novel, ”Havana Between The Sky and Heaven” was published in London:
My second novel is now ready for publication, and I am currently writing my third novel: a fiction book based on a true story and inspired by the extraordinary life of a Brazilian lady who lived 102 years old and whose journey must be told.
I am also a translator and a simultaneous interpreter and I have translated 23 feature films from English to Spanish for Paramount, Universal & Spielberg’s DreamWorks, as well as two books from Brazilian Portuguese to English for Penguin in London: ”The Sword of Herobrine” and ”Herobrine’s Revenge”, and helped Stephen Smith with the writing of “The Land of Miracles”, Little Brown, and my friend Carlos Acosta, the renowned Royal Opera House principal dancer, choreographer and artistic director with the writing of his autobiography “No Way Home”, HarperCollins.
I have worked as a translator and a conference or simultaneous interpreter from English <> Spanish, as well as from Brazilian Portuguese and Italian to English for The BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera English, Sky News, Channel 4 News, Amnesty International in the UK Parliament, the Guardian Newspaper, Guardian Films, British Film Institute, the UK Court Service, the Metropolitan Police, Instituto Cervantes (Spanish Embassy) and the Serpentine Gallery, as well as for several UK and worldwide production companies including Economist Films.
Live simultaneous interpretation for the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera English in London includes speeches by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI, the King of Spain Felipe VI, Spanish Prime Ministers Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez, Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, Italian Prime Ministers Berlusconi, Mario Monti, Matteo Renzi, Paolo Gentiloni and Giuseppe Conte, Chilean Presidents Michele Bachelet & Sebastián Piñera, Brazilian Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva & Dilma Rousseff, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and former Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner amid escalating tension over the Falkland Islands, as well as live coverage of the Madrid bombings, the Chilean miners story, the Amanda Knox trial, the Costa Concordia cruise disaster in Italy, the Kiss nightclub fire in Brazil, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment trial, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and coverage of the terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. I have also interpreted live for Rafael Nadal, Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi.