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Bulgarian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Bulgaria or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Elena Alexieva (born 1975), poet, short story writer, novelist, translator B *Elisaveta Bagriana (1893–1991), early poet, magazine editor, poems translated into English * Miryana Ivanova Basheva (1947–2020), poet *Tania Boteva-Malo (born 1950), French-language writer, novelist, living in Brussels * Iana Boukova (born 1968) Bulgarian poet, novelist, playwright and literary translator D * Svetla Damyanovska, contemporary poet, novelist * Alexenia Dimitrova (born 1960s), investigative journalist *Blaga Dimitrova (1922–2003), poet, Vice-President of Bulgaria * Kristin Dimitrova (born 1963), widely published poet, short story writer, editor, columnist, translator *Theodora Dimova (born 1960), novelist, playwright * Guerguina Dvoretzka (born 1954), poet, novelist, journalist * Emiliya Dvoryanova (born 1958), successful novelist E * Zdravka Evtimova (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. Bulgaria covers a territory of , and is the sixteenth-largest country in Europe. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. One of the earliest societies in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria was the Neolithic Karanovo culture, which dates back to 6,500 BC. In the 6th to 3rd century BC the region was a battleground for ancient Thracians, Persians, Celts and Macedonians; stability came when the Roman Empire conquered the region in AD 45. After the Roman state splintered, tribal invasions in the region resumed. Around the 6th century, these territories were settled by the early Slavs. The Bulgars, led by Asp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Karabasheva
Ekaterina Karabasheva (Bulgarian: Екатерина Карабашева) was born on 19 August 1989 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a prizewinner of Children competition “Space” 1999, International Children Haiku- competition – 2003, National children literature competition “Sparkles – 2004” and of Annual competition “Without Smoke” – 2004. Published works She has published in numerous Bulgarian literature magazines, as well as in the Romanian literature magazine “Dunặrea de Jos”, in the German and English culture magazines “Paraguas”, “Junge Literatur” and “The MAG”.. "On the Edge of the Earth” is her first book, with which she won an award at the National annual Competition for Debut Literature “South Spring” 2005. Her short stories and poems have been translated into English, German, Russian, Romanian, Italian and French. Honours and awards In 2006 she was awarded the first prize at the National literature competitions “My new five po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Dimitrova Radinska
Valentina Dimitrova Radinska (Bulgarian: Валентина Димитрова Радинска) (born 1951 in Slivеn) is a Bulgarian poet. Life She studied at the Sofia University, and graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute with an MA. She was an editor at ''Bulgarian Cinematography''. She teaches at Sofia University. She was married to theater director Krikor Azaryan Krikor Stepan Azaryan ( bg, Крикор Степан Азарян) (15 March 1934 – 14 December 2009) was a Bulgarian director. A Bulgarian Armenian, Azaryan was born in Plovdiv. He graduated from what is today the Krastyo Sarafov National Acad .... Works *"All Soul's Day" *"Gently" *''Kum men vurvi chovek (A man walks toward me)'', 1977 *''Noshtna Kniga (Night book)'', 1983 *''Ne: Stikhotvoreniia'', Kni-vo " Georgi Bakalov", 1988 *''Chistilishte (Purgatory)'', Izdatelska kushta "Niagolova", 1992, *''Vsichko: Stikhotvoreniia (Everything)'', Izdatelska kushta "Ivan Vazov", 1995, *''Dimcho De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Popova
Maria Popova ( bg, Мария Попова; born 28 July 1984) is a Bulgarian-born, American-based essayist, book author, poet, and writer of literary and arts commentary and cultural criticism that has found wide appeal both for her writing and for the visual stylistics that accompany it. In 2006, she started the blog ''Brain Pickings'', an online publication that she has fought to maintain advertisement-free. The blog, renamed to ''The Marginalian'' upon its 15th birthday in 2021, features her writing on books, the arts, philosophy, culture, and other subjects. In addition to her writing and related speaking engagements, she has served as an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow, as the editorial director at the higher education social network Lore (company), Lore, and has written for ''The New York Times'', ''The Atlantic'', ''Wired UK'', and other publications. Since 2010, she has resided in Brooklyn, New York. She is the creator of "The Universe in Verse", a large-scale annua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Ognianova
Nina Ognianova ( bg, Нина Огнянова) is a Bulgarian journalist and rights activist, coordinator of the Europe and Central Asia Program of the Committee to Protect Journalists since 2006. Formerly a staff writer for the International Journalists' Network, since 2007 she has been a prominent figure in the investigations of the murders of Russian, Central Asian and Turkish journalists. In September 2009 she published a report ''Anatomy of Injustice'' on unsolved journalist murders in Russia, and in October 2012 published ''Turkey's Press Freedom Crisis'', which investigates the anti-press campaign under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. She has written numerous articles for major world newspapers; in September 2009 she authored an article "Getting away with murder in Russia:The unsolved killings of 17 journalists has had a chilling effect on the work of Russia's press" for ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milena Nikolova
Milena Nikolova ( bg, Милена Николова, link=no; born 31 October 1984, in Sliven) is a Bulgarian writer. Life Milena Nikolova attended the High school of foreign languages in her hometown Sliven where she studied the English and German languages. In 2003 she entered the University of National and World Economy in Sofia and in 2008 she obtained a bachelor's degree in International economic affairs. In the same year she applied for a Master's course in New Bulgarian University, also in Sofia. There, in 2009 she obtained a master's degree in "International Business". In the same year she also got post-graduate diplomas in Physiotherapy and in Spa-Therapy from the National Sports Academy "Vassil Levski" in Sofia. In 2011, Milena Nikolova obtained her second master's degree in "English and methodology". When she was a young student, Milena Nikolova spent 8 years as a member of a creative writing class in the United school of arts "Misho Todorov" in Sliven, which was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandra Monedzhikova
Aleksandra Mihailova Monedzhikova (24 January 1889 – 2 July 1959) (also spelled Monedžikova or Monedjikova) was a Bulgarian geographer, historian, writer and teacher. Biography Aleksandra Monedzhikova (in Bulgarian, Александра Монеджикова) was born 24 January 1889 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria; her parents were a judge and a teacher. Her grandmother and grandfather had been refugees from the region of Bansko, Bulgaria, who settled in Plovdiv after the brutal suppression of the Kresna-Razlog uprising of 1878. In 1906 her parents moved to the country's capital city of Sofia to work. Monedzhikova graduated from the Second Sofia Girls' High School in 1907, after which she became a teacher in the village of Transka Klisura (Transka district, Western suburbs). There she married Naiden Nikolov, a teacher at the same school, and from that time she was sometimes known as Aleksandra Monedzhikova-Nikolova. During the academic year 1908-1909 she was also a student of hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leda Mileva
Leda Mileva (Bulgarian: Леда Милева) (5 February 1920 – 5 February 2013) was a Bulgarian communist, writer, translator and diplomat. She was the daughter of Bulgarian poet Geo Milev Geo Milev (born Georgi Milev Kasabov; , in Radne mahle – 15 May 1925, in Sofia) was a Bulgarian communist poet, translator and journalist. Geo Milev is perhaps best known for his epic communist poem ''Septemvri'', written during the Bulgar .... Mileva was ambassador and resident representative of Bulgaria in UNESCO until 1978. ReferencesФактор - Леда Милева откраднала идеята за Зайченцето ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aksinia Mihaylova
Aksinia Mihaylova ( bg, Аксиния Михайлова) (born April 13, 1963) is a Bulgarian translator, editor and poet. Her first name also appears as Askinia. She was born in Rakevo village, northwest Bulgaria and was educated at a Lycée français in Vratsa, at the State Institute of Library Studies in Sofia and at the Slavic philology department of Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski. She worked for two years at the regional library in Shumen. In 1990, she helped found the first independent literary journal in Bulgaria ''Ah, Maria'' and continued on as part of its editorial team. From 1994 to 1998, she worked for the Paradox publishing house. As of early 2015, she was living in Sofia. Mihaylova has translated more than 30 books into Bulgarian, both poetry and prose, by authors such as Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Sylvie Germain and Alexis Jenni; she has also published anthologies of Lithuanian and Latvian poetry. She has published five books of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruzha Lazarova
Ruzha Lazarova ( bg, Ружа Лазарова; Sofia, 1968) is a Bulgarian French language writer who currently lives in Paris. She studied at the Lycée Français de Sofia and she later studied French literature at the Sofia University. She started publishing short stories in Bulgarian and was awarded with ''Young Prose'' Bulgarian Prize in 1990. She has also published two short stories in French and a play, which was performed at the “Festival de la Correspondance” in Grignan Grignan (; oc, Grinhan) is a commune in the Drôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. It has a Renaissance castle and is mentioned in the letters that Madame de Sévigné wrote to her daughter, Madame de Gr .... Novels *''Sur le bout de la langue'' (1998) *''Cœurs croisés'' (Flammarion, 2000) *''Frein'' (Balland, 2004) *''Mausolée'' (Flammarion, 2009) References External linksWriter's website 1968 births Living people Writers from Sofia Bulgarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lora Lazar
Lora Lazar is the pen name of a contemporary Bulgarian crime writer. Education The author graduated from the National School of Plastic Arts and the Dechko Uzunov Academy in Kazanlak before attending Sofia University, where she received a master's degree in History and Philosophy and a Postgraduate degree in Cultural Studies. In less than two years, four of her books were published in Bulgaria. Works *In December 2011, her first novel ''The Cursed Goblet,'' appeared. The book won the national competition for crime novel or short story written "In Agatha Christie’s Footsteps", presented by the Bulgarian publisher "Era" and the website "I read". *Released in May 2012, Lazar's second novel ''The Sinful Neighbourhood'' was published by "Iztok-Zapad" and was included in their “Magica” series. *Her third novel was published by Trud in September, 2012, entitled ''Heavens of Sin''. *Released on March 4, 2013, Lora Lazar's fourth novel ''A Borrowed Killer'' was published by "Iztok-Za ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
