My Bajan "Days" as Translator/Interpreter

"Juvenes Translatores 2008" - National winners have received their awards

Twenty-seven "young translators" (one from each EU Member State) travelled to Brussels to receive the prizes of the first ever European translation contest for schools. The prizes for the "Juvenes Translatores" contest were handed in a special ceremony by Leonard Orban, Member of the EC in charge of Mulitilingualism.

The contest was organised by the Translation Directorate-General of the European Commission and took place simultaneously in all Member States under the supervision of the schools involved. Participants were given two hours to translate one of the 23 different original texts into any other official language of the EU.

Below we offer a scan from a local Portuguese newspaper about the national winner, Luís Costa.