Angela Litschev (also known as Angela Litschewa, Bulgarian Ангела Личева; born 17 July 1978) is a Bulgarian-born German writer and poet.

Life and career

Angela Litschev was born 1978 in

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as the only daughter of Alexander Litschev, a historian and philosophy lecturer and his wife Anna, a sociologist. The family emigrated to Germany in 1990, after her father had received a teaching position at the

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. She attended

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-High School in

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and then studied at St. Ursula's College of Social Work. Litschev started her career by publishing her poems in poetry magazines and

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, including two volumes of the Young Poetry Series ''Junge Lyrik'' in the

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in the years 2000 and 2003. The published poems were recited as part of a reading series by various authors in various German cities like

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, among others in 2000 with a reading at the

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. Other poems were published in the Journal of Poetry, essays and criticism DAS GEDICHT, in the years 2003, 2007 and 2009. In 2003, she received the Unicum prize for the best

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. In 2004, she published her debut collection of poems, ''eine rote minute'', for which she received the Award of the

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in 2005. This ceremony brought her awareness beyond the borders of

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and a reading in the ''Bulgarian Cultural Institute'' in

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in 2007. The year before, she had already published her second volume of poetry, ''rausch und täuschung''. Several of her poems from this collection were translated into Croatian for the magazine ''Riječi'', with an introduction by Ludwig Bauer. In 2006, the

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AG under the direction of Dr. Joachim Tuz started a visual lyrical project called ''Poetry In Motion (Poesie bewegt)'' with many modern authors and their contemporary poems, Angela Litschev among them. In addition to readings, she reviews works by colleagues from the Düsseldorf area or supports Bulgarian writer colleagues. In 2009, she was involved in the translation of new Bulgarian poetry for the German literary magazine ''

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''.

Awards

* 2005:

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Selected publications

Books

* 2004: ''eine rote minute'', mischwesen autorenverlag, München, 88 Seiten, (Foreword: Dato Barbakadse). * 2006: ''rausch und täuschung'', mischwesen autorenverlag, München, 66 Seiten, .

Anthologies (selection)

* ''Junge Lyrik II'',

, Melsbach 2000, * ''Junge Lyrik III'',

, Melsbach 2003, Also second, revised edition. (edited by

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) * ''Power'', dtv, Munich 2009, Angela Litschev in: dtv

References

External links

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in:

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Angela Litschev in: Literaturstadt Düsseldorf

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