Valentina Dimitrova Radinska (

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: Валентина Димитрова Радинска) (born 1951 in Slivеn) is a

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Life

She studied at the

Sofia University Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...

, and graduated from the

Maxim Gorky Literature Institute The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (russian: Литературный институт им. А. М. Горького) is an institution of higher education in Moscow. It is located at 25 Tverskoy Boulevard in central Moscow. History The insti ...

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 Debelianov i Povelitelia na vultsite'', Iadatelska kushta "P.K. IAvorov", 1997,

Anthologies

References

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