Edward Vick

Education

He graduated with a degree in English Literature from Cambridge University.

Career

Edward Vick was behind Bulgaria"s biggest literary prize. Nowadays Edward Vick is the Chief Executive Officer of international translation company EVS Translations. Edward Vick was a marketing manager in the tourism and insurance sectors and worked for American Express.

In 1991, Vick who speaks English, German, French and Italian languages founded translation company EVS Translations.

Edward Vick established the Vick Foundation in 2004, which inaugurated the Bulgarian Novel of the Year prize. The aim of the foundation was to promote Bulgarian literature by sponsoring an annual literary prize for a contemporary Bulgarian novel.

The purpose of the Vick Prize was to assist, develop and promote Bulgarian fiction inside and outside Bulgaria. The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. School of Contemporary Chinese Studies.

Seminar Title: The Mythical East: Has China always been a mystery to most of the English-speaking world?.

International Conference on Translation & Interpretation Education Development, Beijing, China

Seminar Title: The arrogance of English

Language Show, London, United Kingdom

Seminar Title: Death of the translator

International Conference on Translation & Interpretation Studies, Leipzig, Germany

Seminar Title: English - the world’s leading language for business. International Conference: Languages and Business Today and Solutions for Tomorrow, Lisbon, Portugal

Seminar Title: English as a leading language. Berliner Morgenpost,

Interview: Aus Liebe zur Fremdsprache (available in German language).

Cambridge University German Society, an association of alumni and friends of the British elite university living in Germany, held its Annual General Meeting at Jacobs University Bremen

As part of "Dies Academicus 2012", Edward Vick talked on "Why English rules the world."

Presentation: Translation as Profession and Business.

Achievements

• He was inspired by Booker prize winner Stanley Middleton who taught him at High Pavement Grammar School, Nottingham, United Kingdom. American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union On May 26th, 2015 at the American Corner, Sofia City Library - Edward Vick, a linguist, researcher and founder of Vick Foundation, spoke on the translation market worldwide and in Bulgaria and presented his own collection of first editions of some of the first Bulgarian books translated into English.