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Tsvetanka Elenkova's
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Tsvetanka Elenkova's
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Tsveta's
fourth poetry collection, Crookedness, published in Bulgarian
by Stigmati, Sofia, 2011.
Read some poems in English
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 Co-translation
with Dimitar Hristov from Macedonian of an anthology of 150 poems by Bogomil Gjuzel,
An Island on Land,
published in Bulgarian by Balkani, Sofia, 2010. |
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 Tsveta's
book of nine essays about the Balkans, Time and Relation,
published in Bulgarian by Small Stations Press, Sofia, 2007.
Read an essay in English
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 Translation
from English of The Distance Between Us by Fiona Sampson, published
in Bulgarian by Balkani, Sofia, 2008.
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 Tsveta's
third poetry collection, The Seventh Gesture, published in Bulgarian
by Zaharii Stoyanov/Sofia University Press, Sofia, 2005.
Read some poems in English
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 Translation
from English of an anthology of 60 poems by Raymond Carver, Luck,
published in Bulgarian by Small Stations Press, Sofia, 2008.
Read the introduction in
English
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 Tsveta's
third poetry collection, The Seventh Gesture, published in English by
Shearsman Books, Exeter, 2010.
Tsvetanka Elenkova at Shearsman
Books
Read reviews in
MPT
/ Poetry Review
/
Stride |
 Co-translation
with Rada Panchovska from English of Even
Though That by Jonathan Dunne, published in English and Bulgarian by Proxima-RP, Sofia,
2004.
Read some poems in English
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 Tsveta's
third poetry collection, The Seventh Gesture, published in Serbian by
Povelja, Kraljevo, 2009.
Read review in Serbian |
 Translation
from English of the anthology of Indian mystic poetry Speaking of Siva,
published in Bulgarian by AB, Sofia, 2000.
Speaking of Siva
(translated by A. K. Ramanujan) was first published by Penguin, London, in
1973.
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 Tsveta's
second poetry collection, Amphipolis of the Nine Roads, published in
Bulgarian by Nov Zlatorog, Sofia, 1998. |
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 Tsveta's
first poetry collection, The Stakes of the Legion, published in
Bulgarian by Nava, Sofia, 1995.
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TSVETANKA
ELENKOVA
was born in Sofia in 1968. She has published four poetry collections and a book of essays
about the Balkans,
Time and Relation.
Her poetry has been translated into twelve languages. Her third collection,
The Seventh Gesture, appeared in both an
English
and a Serbian edition while an English edition of her latest collection,
Crookedness, is forthcoming. Her work has appeared in English in the magazines
Absinthe,
ILQ,
MPT,
Orient
Express,
Poetry Review
and
Zoland Poetry.
She has been a guest at the
Vilenica
(Slovenia),
Poeteka
(Albania) and
Tinos
(Greece) literary festivals. She edited the magazines Ah Maria and
Europe 2001 in Bulgaria and Helios in Greece. She translates from
English, Greek and Macedonian. Her translation of Speaking of Siva was
nominated for the Hristo G. Danov National Award. Her other translations include
an anthology of Raymond Carver’s poetry,
Luck,
as well as poetry by Bogomil Gjuzel, Fiona Sampson and Angelos Sikelianos. She
co-directs the publishing house Small Stations Press.