Rodel, Angela
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Angela Rodel was born in the United States in 1974. She earned a B.A in Slavic linguistics from Yale University and an M.A. in linguistics from UCLA. She has been living in Sofia since 2004 and working as a literary translator. In 2010, she won a PEN Translation Fund Grant from the American PEN Foundation for Holy Light, a collection of stories by Georgi Tenev – the first time a Bulgarian work has received this award. Her translation of Milen Rouskov’s novel Thrown into Nature won the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation’s first Bulgarian Novel Contest for English translation and was published by Open Letter Books in 2011. Angela’s English translation of the play The Apocalypse Comes at 6 P.M. by Georgi Gospodinov, was one of nine selected from over 400 international submissions to be presented at hotINK, a festival organized by the Lark Play Development Center in New York City in March 2011. Her translations of Ivan Hristov’s poetry appeared in the 2011 edition of Two Lines, a leading anthology of literature in translation.