Multilingual student scoops Achievement in Translation Prize.

The annual Achievement in Translation prize, awarded to the most outstanding student on the Translation Studies degree programme at Aston University, was awarded to Tanvir Allidina.

Tanvir, who studied English into French translation, was deemed by her tutors to be the most deserving recipient of the award. Her dissertation covered the integration issues faced by young people of North African origin in France.

Her family descends from India but three generations have lived in Kenya and subsequently Burundi, the former Belgian colony. Tanvir has an outstanding gift for language, having command of French, Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, Swahili and, although she has only lived in the UK since 2004, perfect English, totally without accent.

Liz Athey, Operations Manager for The Translation People, stated that “It is clear that Tanvir is a hugely talented linguist.”