Biography

Maria Doneva has won several awards from prestigious national poetry competitions in Bulgaria. She is the author of Farewell to the Reader (1996, 2003), The Void Between Us (Ohrid, 2005), Reason To Fear (2005, 2007, 2008), Fifty Years of Puppet Theater in Stara Zagora (2008), The Enticement of Meaning (2009), Soft Sun (2010), Shop for Round Pebbles (2011), Feather of Smoke (2012), The Rabbit and His Dream (2013), A Handful of Shiny Cherries (2013) and Pure Poems (2014). She also writes plays for the Geo Milev Drama Theater in Stara Zagora.
Since 2008, she has worked as a director and playwright in the program for art therapy at the State Psychiatric Hospital, Radnevo.

Excerpts

• How to Pack Small and Light For a Journey Without Forgetting Something Important by Maria Doneva, translated by Christopher Buxton

Contact

• Maria Doneva:
  E-mail: mdoneva@gmail.com

Related Links

• www.mdoneva.com