THE STUDENT YOANNA HRISTOVA IS IN THE TOP THREE OF THE TRANSLATION COMPETITION "TRANSFORMATIONS"
02 June 2023
Yoanna Hristova - a second-year student in Graphic Design at Varna Free University "Chernorizets Hrabar" is in the top three of the translation competition "Transformations", organized by the Faculty of Modern Languages at VTU "St. St. Cyril and Methodius". The competition is held with the assistance of the Ministry of Education and Science.
Yoanna won the jury consisting of highly qualified foreign language teachers from various educational and cultural institutions and foreign speakers, with her translation from French of "Marine" - a work of the great writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Anatole France. The graduate of VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar" was one of the few participants in the competition whose major was not related to linguistics.
Yoanna Hristova participated in "Transformations" for the fourth consecutive year, together with students from Educational Centre Co-Share, Varna. In the previous edition of the competition, she presented a translation of poetry from Japanese into Bulgarian. The graphic design student studies the language of the Land of the Rising Sun at VFU |Chernorizets Hrabar", where the rare language has been taught for four years. The Department of Foreign Language Teaching and Postgraduate Qualification develops its language palette with English, Russian and Portuguese language training. Studying foreign languages increases the competitiveness of graduates of Varna Free University and gives them the opportunity to include in their professional portfolio the command of two or three languages, including rare ones.
Yoanna Hristova is a graduate of the IV Language school "Frédéric Joliot-Curie" in Varna and is fluent in French, Spanish, English, Russian and Japanese. At the end of last year, she presented her first solo exhibition "Jajda"/"Thirst" to the Varna public. In the period 2018 - 2022, she has three realized projects - a collection of poems with internal illustrations and two cover illustrations. She took part in the second edition of the "Illustration Biennale" in 2020 with two works. She was awarded an incentive award in the illustration competition for the book "Phoenix - The Temple of Life" written by Elisaveta Loginova in 2021.
