Anguelov, Zlatko
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Zlatko Anguelov (1946) is a Bulgarian writer who lives in Planas del Rey, Catalunya, Spain. He was trained as an MD, taught anatomy, histology, and cell biology, and worked as a freelance journalist up to his emigration to Canada in August 1992. In Iowa City, Iowa, U.S. he worked as a medical writer (1999-2009) and an archive writer with the International Writers’ Program (2009-2013). Since June 2013, he lived with his wife, a professor of linguistics, in Southampton, UK, until finally, in January 2016, he settled in their family home in the southern part of Catalunya.
Zlatko began writing fiction in 2009. Prior to that he published his memoir, written in the English language, Communism and the Remorse of an Innocent Victimizer (Texas A&M Universwity Press, College Station 2002), and wrote travel essays for the Bulgarian literary magazine Savremennik. His first fiction book, a collection of five novellas titled Erotic Memories, appeared in Sofia in 2012 (Ciela). Next year Scalino (Sofia, 2013) published a short novel structured as a collection of three short stories, Love on Boogie Street. The travel essays were assembled in a book, titled My America (Ergo, Sofia 2015). His fifth book is a collection of literary essays, Literature at the End of the World (Lexicon, Sofia2017). An extension of this book has been published in October, 2021 under the title I despise the graphomaniacs (Ergo, Sofia 2021).
Zlatko’s novel The Memory Hotel was published by Znatci (Bourgas) in 2020.
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