The website is a literary platform which presents up-to-date profiles of living Bulgarian writers of fiction and short stories. It aims at facilitating the access of the English speaking audience to the contemporary Bulgarian literature. Created in public interest, its mission is to be a crossing-point of the contemporary Bulgarian literature and the English speaking world.

Each profile contains a biography, excerpt(s) and picture. Synopses, interviews and critical reviews are gradually being added. This site also features the translators of the published texts. Profiles are searchable by author and title.

The content of this website is generated by some of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation’s core projects, such as its international Sozopol Fiction Seminars, the Krastan Dyankov Translation Award and the Fiction Pages in VAGABOND, Bulgaria’s English Monthly.

Although this project has been kicked off with profiles of writers we have worked with, new authors will be added on irregular basis.

Together with the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation’s ongoing projects, which will continue to feed the database with new texts in translation, the site will be additionally updated through open requests. Submissions to the website will be considered by an international review panel twice a year. We accept proposals for writers to be featured on the site from writers, publishers, editors, translators and literary critics.

Before being published, every entry is approved by the featured author.

The views expressed are those of the authors and the contributors and may not necessarily represent those of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation.

The translated excerpts presented in each author’s profile are not intellectual property of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation. The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation is not responsible or liable in any manner if content of the website is uploaded, posted, published, displayed, transmitted, shared or otherwise made available by third parties.

The copyrights for the original texts lie with the authors or publishers in question. The copyrights for the translated excerpts lie with the translators in question if not otherwise agreed. The translations may not be distributed or republished without the author’s and the translator’s consent. You may view and use the website’s content for private purposes only. You are not allowed to republish or otherwise distribute or make available the translated excerpts, without the prior written consent of the author and the translator of the text in question.

For permission to use any of the texts published on this website and for copyright ownership, please use the contact listed on each author’s profile.

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If you have any questions or comments about the site, please contact writers@ekf.bg.

Biography

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.

Excerpts

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

Interviews

• Out of the Limelight, interview by Silviya Choleva

Contact

• Elena Alexieva:
  E-mail:  e_alexieva@hotmail.com

Related Links

• Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue #51: The Fun Fair by Elena Alexieva

Biography

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

Excerpts

• Lady Jane by Emil Andreev, translated by Vladimir Dinev
• The Glass River by Emil Andreev, translated by Zhivka Ganeva

Contact

• Emil Andreev:
  E-mail: andreev_emil@mail.bg