Žanete Vēvere Pasqualini was born in Riga. She graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Latvia, in 1995, at the same time completing a course in Italian language and culture at the University of Perugia.

Žanete is fluent in English, Italian and Russian and also has basic knowledge of French.

She worked for the Latvian Embassy in Rome which has led to her now dividing her time between Latvia and Italy.

Žanete has translated literature for both adults and children. She enjoys the challenge of rendering the text precisely while keeping the target language as natural and flowing as possible.

In 2016 her translation from Italian to Latvian, “Pagrīdes ieceļotāji” by Valentina Paravano and Valerio Tassara, was published by “Pētergailis”. The following translations have been published or will be shortly published in English: children’s poetry “The Noisy Classroom” by Ieva Flamingo (Emma Press), children’s book “Dog Town” by Luīze Pastore (Firefly), novel “The Green Crow” (Peter Owen Press), short stories “The Birds of Ķīpsala island” by Dace Rukšāne and “The Shakes” by Svens Kuzmins (“The Book of Riga”, Comma Press),  a short story “The Quarry” by Jana Egle (Words Without Borders).