Czech translations

Portfolio

Audiovisual translation

Subtitles

Against the Tide
One World, 2024
Liquor Store Dreams
One World, 2023
If You Are a Man
One World, 2023
The Brain
AFO, 2022
Birds of America
AFO, 2022

Non-literary translation

Praha–Strasbourg : 10 ans de résidences artistiques
French Institute in Prague
(catalogue, 2024, selected texts)

Marie Claire

2023–2024, selected articles

Literary translation

Taking Care of Baby (CS)
Dennis Kelly
Dilia, 2024
Sleeping Beauty (CS)
Leïla Slimani
In: V zrcadle překladu XV, 2020

Proofreading

Every Shade of Happy (CS)
Phyllida Shrimpton
Metafora, 2024
Anna O (CS)
Matthew Blake
Metafora, 2024

My clients

Academia Film Olomouc
A-FilmTeensFest
Agentura EDUCO
Alchemy Translation
Caritas of the Archdiocese of Olomouc
Creative Africa
dok.revue
FAMUFEST
French Film Festival in the Czech Republic
French Institute in Prague
i527.net
Marie Claire CZ
Metafora
OKTAGON MMA (via language. agency)
One World (via AZ Translations)
Orange Tree
Organization for Aid to Refugees
Prague Science Film Fest
Rolino
Charles University
Videacesky.cz

Awards

2024 ⋅ Soutěž Jiřího Levého

1st place for Prose

Translation contest of the Czech Literary Translators’ Guild
Awarded translation: an excerpt of La Treizième heure (Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam, 2022)

2020 ⋅ Den s překladem

Honourable mention

Translation contest of the University of Ostrava
Awarded short story translation: La Belle au bois dormant (Leïla Slimani, 2016)

Eliška Kaplan

Native Czech translator and subtitler

Formal education

2021–2023 ⋅ Institute of Translation Studies, Charles University

Master’s: Translation, Interpreting (Czech–French)

2019–2020 ⋅ Erasmus+, Université de Lille

Bachelor’s: Lettres modernes, Sciences du langage, Études cinématographiques

2017–2021 ⋅ Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc

Bachelor’s: French Language and Literature, Film Studies


Other courses and certificates

2024 ⋅ Literary English-to-Czech Translation for Beginners

Organizer: Czech Literary Translators’ Guild
Instructor: Lucie Mikolajková

2024 ⋅ Subtitles for the Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (accredited)

Organizer: Czech Chamber of Sign Language Interpreters
Instructors: Miroslav Pošta, Filip Machač

Contact me

Eliška Kaplan
eliska.kaplan@seznam.cz
eliska.kaplan@gmail.com

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