Roshkev, Stoil
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Born in 1976, Stoil Roshkev graduated in Bulgarian studies from Sofia University. A prize-winning author of poetry, he works as a journalist. He published his first book of poems in 1997 and his first novel in 2007, and has just finished his second novel, Cybermodernism.
Ruskov, Milen
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Bulgarian writer and translator Milen Ruskov, born in 1966, graduated from Sofia University in 1995. He is one of the laureates of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014 for his award-winning, best-selling and fully-staged novel Summit (Âúçâèøåíèå, Janet 45, 2011). Ruskov has written three novels: Pocket Encyclopaedia of Mysteries (2004), which was awarded the Bulgarian Prize for Debut, Thrown into
Read MoreSekulov, Alexander
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Alexander Sekulov was born on January 6, 1964, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He graduated from the professional school for stage arts as an assistant producer and got his master’s degree in Bulgarian philology from Paisiy Hilendarski
Read MoreShpatov, Alexander
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Alexander Shpatov was born in 1985 in Sofia. He is a graduate of the American College of Sofia and the Sofia University Law School.
He is author of the short story collections #LiveFromSofia (2014), available in
Stambolova, Albena
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Albena Stambolova is a writer and translator. She graduated in French philology from the Sofia University. She has worked as an editor and translator and also writes in the field of literary and social criticism, foreign literature reception and psychoanalysis.
Read MoreStoyanova, Olya
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Olya Stoyanova was born in 1977 and she is a writer, poet and playwright. She has a PhD in Journalism and Mass Culture from Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ochridski’. Olya Stoyanova has won several awards from prestigious competitions in poetry, prose and drama. She is an author of nine books – two short stories collection, one non-fiction book, four poetry collections, one novel, and a collection with plays.
Olya’s poetry book – Street “Happiness” won in 2013 The National Award Nikolay Kanchev for the poetry book of the Year and The National Award Ivan Nikolov 2013 for the poetry book of the Year.
Her play “Invitation to dinner” (Theatre „Sofia“) won the National Award Askeer for the Best Dramatic Text of the Year 2014. In 2018 her play ‘The Color of Deep Waters’ (The National Theatre ‘Ivan Vazov’) won again the National Askeer Award in the category for Best Dramatic Text of the Year.
Her short stories, poems and plays have been translated into Spanish, German, English, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Slovak, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Greek and Vietnamese.
Books
Poetry
Photographs (which won the Veselin Hanchev Poetry contest 2000)
Prose (Publishing House ‘Zhanet-45’, 2002)
Road Map (Youth Centre – Rousse, 2003, it won first prize for poetry, organized by century Literary Journal and Youth Centre)
Street Happiness (Publishing House ‘Zhanet-45’, 2013, it won The Nikolay Kanchev Award 2013 for the Best poetry book of the Year; it won The Ivan Nikolov Poetry Award 2013 for the Best poetry book of the Year)
Novel
Personal Geographies (Publishing House ‘Zhanet-45’2005)
Short stories
What Do Wolves Dream (Publishing House ‘Siela’, 2011)
Intense Clouding (Publishing House ‘Zhanet-45’, 2017, it was nominated for the annual Prize for Fiction and Íumanities for 2018, Communitas Foundation)
Non-Fiction
A Guide to Wild Places (Publishing House ‘Zhanet-45’, 2011)
Dramaturgy
Small Goodbye Rituals (Publishing House Black Flamingo, 2015)
Excerpts
- Little Escapes by Olya Stoyanova, translated by Diana Stoykova, Lyublyana Atanasova and Nataliya Yaneva
- A short story “What Wolves Dream”, translated in English by Angela Rodel, was included in the first Words without Borders feature on Bulgarian fiction, supported by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation: https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/what-wolves-dream
- A short story ‘An Encounter in Tirana’, translated in English by Annie Dancheva, published in “Przekr?j” – a magazine about society and culture in Poland: https://przekroj.pl/en/literature/an-encounter-in-tirana-olya-stoyanova
- Accents Publishing: http://www.accents-publishing.com/blog/tag/olya-stoyanova/
- A poem ‘Small stories’ https://glli-us.org/2018/06/30/olya-stoyanova-small-stories/
- The monthly magazine Vagabond: https://vagabond.bg/little-escapes-short-story-1162
- Performances http://artvibe.bg/creatives/2187
- https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6885779._
Contact
- Olya Stoyanova:
E-mail: oj@abv.bg
Related Links
- http://accents-publishing.com/blog/2014/05/01/manage-to-meet-olya-stoyanova-on-the-importance-of-poetical-discourse/
- http://www.literaryfest.org/105410831103-10571090108611031085108610741072.html
- http://diodepoetry.com/v6n1/content/stoyanova_stoykova-klemer.html
- http://granta.bg/authors/author/72
- http://www.erunsmagazine.com/archive/109/?rq=page&artid=1429
- http://books.janet45.com/authors/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%8F__%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0
- http://www.standartnews.com/mneniya-intervyuta/olya_stoyanova___zhivotat_e_povazhen_ot_pisaneto-241157.html