At today’s award ceremony in Brussels for the annual EU Young Translator or ‘Juvenes Traslatores’ contest winners, secondary school student Eeva Aleksejeva will pick up the prize in the Estonian translator category.

Contestants translated a one-page text based on their choice of any of the 506 language combinations possible among the EU’s 23 official languages, which were all chosen. Of the 27 winners, all translated into the official language of their country, with eleven translating from English, five into both French and Spanish, four into German and one into both Estonian and Irish.