CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN WRITERS » Writers https://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:25:58 +0000 en hourly 1 Alexieva, Elena https://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/1-writers/elena-alexieva/ https://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/1-writers/elena-alexieva/#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 23:28:45 +0000 admin http://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/?p=129 Bio | Synopses | Excerpts | Critical Reviews | Interviews | Contact | Related Links

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Elena Alexieva was born in 1975 in Sofia. She majored in international economic relations at the University of National and World Economics in Sofia, and continued her studies in the doctoral program in semiotics at New Bulgarian University, Sofia. She is the author of two poetry collections, Ladder on the Heart (1994) and Face of a Killer Angel (1996); the novel The Blue Stairway (2000); two collections of short stories, Readers’ Group 31 (2005) and Who (2006); as well as the novels Knight, Devil, and Death (2007) and She Is Here (2009). She has recently released a third short-story collection, Pets Syndicated (2010). She is winner of the 2006 Helicon Prize for new Bulgarian fiction for Readers’ Group 31. Her works have appeared in a number of periodicals and anthologies in Bulgaria and abroad. Her short story The Fun Fair has been included in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue #51. A Spanish translation of Who was published in 2010, while a French edition of Knight, Devil and Death is in the pipeline.

Elena Alexieva lives in Sofia, where she works as freelance interpreter and writer.

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  • Leon by Elena Alexieva, translated by Elena Alexieva
  • Messiah by Elena Alexieva, translated by Elena Alexieva

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Emil Andreev graduated in English from Veliko Tarnovo University and has worked as a teacher, newspaper editor and lecturer in English at the Faculty of Theology, Sofia University. He is the author of Lom Stories (1996), Late Art Noveau (1998) and The Drunkard’s Island (1999), all collections of short stories. His plays are To Kill a Prime Minister (2002) and The Treasure Hunters (2003); he has also written three novels: The Glass River (2004), The Curse of the Frog (2006) and Crazy Luka (2010).

In 2007, he won the Helicon National Award for his novel The Curse of the Frog. In 2005, he won the Vick Award for his novel The Glass River and also received the Readers’ Award for the same novel.

His works have been translated into German, English, Polish, Russian, Slovak and Serbian

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]]> https://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/1-writers/emil-andreev/feed/ 0 Anguelov, Zlatko https://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/1-writers/anguelov-zlatko/ https://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/1-writers/anguelov-zlatko/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:28:40 +0000 Simona Ilieva http://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/?p=1221 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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Five Poems by Greg Brown in Savremennik (Issue 1, 2010)

]]> https://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/1-writers/anguelov-zlatko/feed/ 0 Boykov, Nikolay https://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/1-writers/bojkov-nikolaj/ https://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/1-writers/bojkov-nikolaj/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:05:51 +0000 Milena http://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/?p=631 Nikolay Boykov (Vidin, 1968)