About

The studio
behind the work.

Josefine Translates is a boutique translation practice founded in Arezzo in 2019. Six specialist disciplines. One translator as the constant point of contact. All services delivered digitally.

Josefine Larsson in her Arezzo studio
Josefine Larsson

From Arezzo.

I am Swedish-born and Italy-based since 2018. My academic background is in comparative literature and cultural studies, with a postgraduate specialisation in legal translation. I worked as a translator and editor in Stockholm and London before moving to Arezzo to live in the city I had been visiting as a researcher for a decade.

The decision to found this studio here was deliberate. Arezzo’s cultural heritage — the Piero della Francesca frescoes in the Basilica di San Francesco, the Chimera in the archaeological museum, the goldsmithing tradition rooted in this city for centuries — meant that the context for the work I was already doing existed in an unusually concentrated form. The city’s business community — manufacturing, fashion, agriculture, law — created demand for all the other disciplines.

This is a boutique practice. I do not take on work I cannot do well. Where a project requires a specialist outside my direct expertise, I work with a small group of trusted colleagues whom I have known professionally for years and who meet the same standard I hold myself to. The client always knows who is working on their project.

Fixed quotes. Transparent process. One point of contact from brief to delivery. That is the offer.

2019
Founded, Arezzo
6
Disciplines
25+
Language pairs
IT/SE/EN
Native languages
I believe that the translator who does not understand the subject of the text cannot know whether their choices are right. They can only know whether they sound plausible. These are different things.
Josefine Larsson — Founder