Translator Profile: Andrew McDougall (andymcd90)

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I am a translator from Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan into English, specialising in literary, cultural, artistic, academic and sports texts.

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La literatura, en su sentido más amplio, es cualquier trabajo escrito; aunque algunas definiciones incluyen textos hablados o cantados.	Literature, in the broadest sense, is any written work; although some definitions include texts which are spoken or sung.
En un sentido más restringido y tradicional, es la escritura que posee mérito literario y que privilegia la literariedad, en oposición al lenguaje ordinario.	In the narrowest and most traditional sense, it is writing which has literary merit and prioritises literary qualities, as opposed to ordinary language.
El término literatura designa también al conjunto de producciones literarias de una nación, de una época o incluso de un género (la literatura griega, la literatura del siglo XVIII, la literatura fantástica, etc.) y al conjunto de obras que versan sobre un arte o una ciencia (literatura médica, jurídica, etc.).	The term literature also denotes the combined literary output of a nation, an age or even a genre (Greek literature, eighteenth-century literature, fantasy literature, etc.) and to the body of works written about an art or a science (medical literature, legal literature, etc.).
En términos artísticos, la literatura es el arte de la palabra, ya sea palabra oral o escrita.	In artistic terms, literature is the art of words, whether they be spoken or written.
Es estudiada por la teoría literaria.	It is studied by literary theory.

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