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Interview with Tsveta for the e-zine Knigi News - in Bulgarian!
Article about our presentation at the Sofia International Book Fair on 8 December 2007 in the e-zine Slovesa - in Bulgarian!
Interview with Tsveta for the Bulgarian daily Dnevnik (3 May 2007) - in Bulgarian!
Below is a list of our titles, both published and forthcoming:
Published
THE DNA OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Jonathan
Dunne In English!
This revolutionary book sets out to persuade the reader that the English language is not the result of years of haphazard evolution, a chaotic atom-like conglomeration of words, but a carefully planned whole in which each word has its place and is connected by a consistent set of rules. It is not a coincidence that earth is heart or soil is soul, for instance, or that salt makes us last ("You are the salt of the earth") but last is in fact lst. This book journeys from the Book of Genesis and Creation to Revelation and the Last Judgement through the English language, suggesting that language has something to tell us about the environment and that he who would be true to himself is inexorably pushed out on to the margins.
Read the opening chapter of THE DNA OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
LUCK by Raymond Carver In Bulgarian!
An anthology of 60 poems in Bulgarian translation. The American writer Raymond Carver had a difficult life but managed to turn darkness into light. These sixty poems chart his journey from drunken beginnings to the realisation that someone was waiting for him and happiness can be found in the simplest moments, for example watching the newspaper boy and his friend walk up the road in the early morning. The author comes out of himself to view himself from the outside and then to break in: "I bashed that beautiful window and stepped back in." This is a book that is never without humour and modesty, the lessons of years.
Read the introduction to LUCK in English
TIME AND RELATION by Tsvetanka Elenkova In Bulgarian!
In this book of nine essays, accompanied by thirty-two colour photographs, the poet and critic Tsvetanka Elenkova travels from her native Bulgaria to Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia and England. Along the way, she shares her impressions of Athens, Delphi and the Dodecanese, of Alanya, of Kas and Megisti, where Turkey and Greece come face to face, of Lake Ohrid, the deepest in the Balkans, and Struga in Macedonia, famous for its poetry evenings, of the Serbian monasteries of Frushka Gora and finally of England, where she visits London, Chichester, Oxford and Portsmouth. In this book, the author connects legend with what she sees, a Balkan thread that ends up unexpectedly in England.
Read an essay by Tsvetanka Elenkova in English
Forthcoming
FROM UNKNOWN TO UNKNOWN by Manuel Rivas In English!
An anthology of 80 poems in English translation. Manuel Rivas is internationally Galicia's best-known writer, having published two novels and a collection of short stories in Jonathan's English translation. Three short stories were made into a Spanish film, Butterfly's Tongue (Butterfly in the US), directed by José Luis Cuerda. Of his novel The Carpenter's Pencil, also made into a film directed by the Galician rock star Antón Reixa, Günter Grass said he learnt more about the Spanish civil war than from any history book. Rivas' poems are earthy, a cry for us to come to our senses, and full of beautiful imagery.
Read some poems by Manuel Rivas
CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN POETRY In English!
So often the translation of poetry is limited to the classics and contemporary voices are rarely heard even in their own language. This anthology of twelve Bulgarian voices, six male and six female, aims to give space to the visions and aspirations of twelve contemporary poets. A poem is a painful experience, from which we hope to draw something positive, even some wisdom, and present it to the reader to know that they are not alone and each stage of human existence has its counterpart.
Read some poems by Iana Boukova
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