The Young Scholar Award

The Young Scholar Award was set up (with the financial contribution of John Benjamins) to encourage young scholars who made a significant contribution to Translation Studies, and is presented every three years, at the EST Congress.

The first award was presented to

Nike Kocijanjic Pokorn

from Slovenia

at the Copenhagen Congress in 2001

for her doctoral thesis on

Literary Translation into a Non-Mother Tongue: Socio-Cultural and Individual Factors.

The second award was presented to

Minhua Liu

from Taiwan

at the Lisbon Congress in 2004

for her doctoral thesis on

Expertise in Simultaneous Interpreting: A Working Memory Analysis.

Two winners were selected for the 2007 EST Young Scholar Award, presented at the Ljubljana Congress in 2007.

They are

Cemal Demircioğlu,

from

Okan University, Istanbul,

for his doctoral dissertation entitled:

From Discourse to Practice: Rethinking “Translation” (Terceme) and Related Practices of Text Production in the Late Ottoman Literary Tradition

and

Jorge Braga Riera

from

the University of Oviedo

for his doctoral dissertation entitled:

La traducción al inglés en el siglo XVII: Las comedias del Siglo de Oro español.

Announcements regarding applications for the next award will be published on this website in the announcements section and in the EST Newsletter.