Tsvetanka Elenkova

Tsvetanka Elenkova, Writer & Literary Translator

Publications

The Stakes of the Legion (Nava, 1995) - poetry
Amphipolis of the Nine Roads (Nov Zlatorog, 1998) - poetry
The Seventh Gesture (Zaharii Stoyanov/Sofia University Press, 2005) - poetry
Time and Relation (Small Stations Press, 2007) - essays
The Seventh Gesture (Povelja, 2009) - Serbian translation
The Seventh Gesture (Shearsman Books, 2010) - English translation
Crookedness (Stigmati, 2011) - poetry

Anthologies in Bulgaria: Anthology of the 90s: Bulgarian Classics (Ah Maria, 1999); Beginning of the Century: The Newest Bulgarian Poetry (Ezik i Literatura, 2001); Lirika (NDK, 2003-11); The Newest Bulgarian Literature (Ezik i Literatura, 2004); The Unknown Andersen (Sofia University Press, 2008)

Anthologies abroad: Douze Poètes de Trois Pays Voisins (Desmos, France, 2002); Magoncok és morzsák: Bolgár apró irások (Napkut Kiado, Hungary, 2006); Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry (Polja, Serbia, 2007); Poems of Greek Texture (IWTCR, Greece, 2008); Vilenica 23rd International Literary Festival (Slovene Writers' Association, Slovenia, 2008); Poeteka 5 (Poeteka, Albania, 2009); 1st Tinos International Literary Festival (Society of de(kata),Greece, 2010)

Individual publications in Bulgaria: Altera, Ah Maria, Demokraticheski Pregled, Detonatsia, Europe 2001, Ezik i Literatura, Kapital Light, Knijen Sviat, Kritika, Kultura, Literaturen Forum, Literaturen Vestnik, Literaturna Akademia, Literaturni Balkani, Ognishte, Orphei, Plamak, Rhythm, Savremennik, Sega, Slovoto, Stranitsa, Svet, Vek 21, Vezni

Individual publications abroad: Goma de borrar (Argentina); Aerea (Chile); Libra Libera (Croatia); Ilantron (Cyprus); Autre Sud (France); Anti, Athens News, Balkan Reporter, E-Poema, Helios, Temata Logotehnias (Greece); Nashe Pismo (Macedonia); Posdata, Vida Universitaria (Mexico); Knijevne Novine, Knijevni Magazin, Kvartal, Matica Srpska, Mejay, Polja, Zlatna Greda (Serbia); Cumhuriyet (Turkey); International Literary Quarterly, Modern Poetry in Translation, Orient Express, Poetry Review (UK); Potjah 76 (Ukraine); Absinthe, Zoland (US)

Translations

From English:

Various authors, Speaking of Siva (AB, 2000)
Jonathan Dunne, Even Though That (Proxima-RP, 2004, with Rada Panchovska)
Raymond Carver, Luck (Small Stations Press, 2008)
Fiona Sampson, The Distance Between Us (Balkani, 2008)

From Macedonian:

Bogomil Gjuzel, An Island on Land (Balkani, 2010, with Dimitar Hristov)

Anthologies: Contemporary Greek Literature (Plamak, Bulgaria, 2005); Hemus Anthology of Balkan Poetry (Anti, Greece, 2007)

Individual translations: Ah Maria, Demokraticheski Pregled, Duma, Europe 2001, Hristianstvo i Kultura, Literaturen Vestnik, Literaturni Balkani, Panorama, Plamak, Savremennik, Slovoto, Svetilnik, Trud (Bulgaria)

Editions

Editor of Ah Maria (Sofia, 1990-2000) - first private literary magazine in Bulgaria

Editor of special issue of Literaturen Vestnik devoted to Greek poetry (2000)

Editor of Helios (Rhodes, 2001-7) - magazine of the International Writers and Translators Centre of Rhodes (IWTCR)

Editor-in-chief of Europe 2001 (Sofia, 2001-7) - socio-cultural magazine

Foreword for Jean-Claude Villain, And He Huge Loving Beast Arrowed by the Sun (Foundation for Bulgarian Literature, 2004)

Editor of anthology of contemporary Bulgarian poets for the Serbian magazine Polja (Novi Sad, 2006)

Editor of Poems of Greek Texture (Rhodes, 2008) - anthology of poems devoted to Greece

Prizes

Nominated:

2000 Hristo G. Danov National Award for Translation (Speaking of Siva)
2011 Ivan Nikolov National Award for Poetry (Crookedness)

Education

Sofia University of National and World Economics (1991) - BA Hons in Economics

Pitman Examinations Institute (1994) - Diploma in English

Athens University (2000) - Diploma in Greek

Tsvetanka Elenkova can be contacted via the website www.smallstations.com