Interpreting/Translating qualifications:
NAATI [National Accreditation Authority for Translators and
Interpreters, Australia] accreditation as Advanced Translator (formerly level 4), English —> Italian and Italian —> English, obtained in 1988 [attained Level 3 accreditation (also in both directions) in 1984].
NAATI accreditation as Interpreter (formerly Level 3), English/Italian, as from 1983.
Interpreting/Translating experience:
Continuously engaged since 1972 in Interpreting/Translating activities on a free-lance basis working in the areas of law, medicine, business and commerce, science and technology.
1972-76: official (part-time) interpreter/translator for the Italian Embassy Commercial Office in Auckland (New Zealand).
1976-1980: freelance interpreter/translator in the Brisbane.
1980–1981: consultant, Migrant Services Section, Australian Department of Social Security, Canberra for the production of a multilingual glossary of social security terms for use by the Department's public contact personnel and by interpreters/translators (subsequently published in 1983).
1984-2003: coordinator/lecturer for the NAATI accredited paraprofessional interpreting course at the University of Wollongong.
1986-2003: panel interpreter and translator for the Translating and Interpreting Service (official Australian Federal Government agency).
1986-current: panel translator and interpreter for the Community Relations Commission of NSW (official NSW Government agency, formerly Ethnic Affairs Commission).
1980-current: freelance interpreter/translator in the Wollongong area.
Signature and NAATI stamp are registered with and recongised by: (i) DEFAT (for apostille); (ii) Italian Consulate General, Sydney; (iii) Italian Vice Consulate, Wollongong.
Academic qualifications:
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Sydney, 1966.
Master of Arts (Distinction), University of Western Australia, 1970.
Diploma di Specializzazione in Storia della Lingua Italiana,
University of Rome (Italy), 1973.
PhD, University of Wollongong, 1989.
MED (TESOL), University of Wollongong, 1999.
Masters LettItalCalab, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy), 2003.
Publications - Book-length translations:
S. Nievo The Blue Whale[Translation Italian > English by Gaetano Rando of Stanislao Nievo La Balena Azzurra, Milan, Mondadori, 1993], Toronto, Guernica, 2000.
R. Carboni La Barricata dell'Eureka. Translation into Italian,
introduction and notes by G. Rando, Rome, Archivio Guido Izzi, 2000.
[Tanslation English —> Italian of Raffaello Carboni, The Eureka
Stockade, Melbourne 1855]
C. Caruso UnderAnother Sky [Parts I and II translated by Gaetano Rando], Congedo Editore Lecce, 1999 [Translation Italian > English of Carmelo Caruso Sotto un altro cielo, Congedo Editore, Lecce, 1998]
R. Cappiello Oh Lucky Country, St Lucia (Qld) , University of
Queensland Press, 1984. Translation into English and introduction by G. Rando [Translation Italian > English of Rosa R. Cappiello, Paese fortunato, Milan, Feltrinelli, 1982] – new edition Sydney University Press currently being published
Other published translations into English include:
Summary translation into English of De Marchi's novel Il Cappello del
Prete in A Guide to De Marchi's "Il Cappello del Prete", Perth, 1970 (with F. Komadina).
Summary translation (into English) of selected short stories in A Guide to Eight Italian Short Stories, Perth, 1971, (with F. Komadina).
"G. Nibbi: Tenants Number Two" Outrider, 3:1 (June 1986).
R. Cappiello 'Kitchen Tales' in Drusilla Modjeska (ed.), Inner Cities
Australian Women's Memory of Place, Ringwood [Vic], Penguin Australia, 1989, 243-346.
E. Gabbrielli 'Incident at Ayers Rock' in G. Rando. (ed.) Italo-AustralianProse in the 80's, 1988, 196-209.
[with A. Mitchell]. R. Cappiello '10/20 Dogs under the Bed' in Sneja Gunew - Jan University of Queensland Press, 1988, 42-51.
Other published translations into Italian include:
"L'inglese d'Australia" (English original by A. Delbridge), Il Veltro
XVII (2-3).
"L'influenza dell'immigrazione italiana sull'inglese d'Australia"
(English original by W.S. Ramson), Il Veltro cit.
"Gl'italiani in Nuova Zelanda. Una prospettiva storica" (English
original by E. & H.M. Laracy), Il Veltro cit.
"Missionari italiani in Australia e in Nuova Zelanda" (English original by H.M. Laracy), Il Veltro cit.
"Il clima della Nuova Zelanda" (English original by K.B. Sporli), Il
Veltro, cit.
R. Amato 'Una questione di grammatica' in Michael Arrighi (ed.),
Italians in Australia The Literary Experience, Wollongong [NSW], The University (Department of Modern Languages), 1991, 75-84.
R. Amato 'Nuovo Paese' in G. Rando (ed.) Italo-Australian Prose in the
80's, 1988,8-12.
A major translation-related publication is:
G. Rando Dizionario degli anglicismi nell'italiano postunitario,
Florence, Olschki, 1987.
