Tsvetanka Elenkova

Tsvetanka Elenkova, Writer & Literary Translator

Prizes

Nominated:

2000 Hristo G. Danov National Award (Speaking of Siva)

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

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, 2003-9); 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)

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, Sega, Slovoto, Stranitsa, 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, Helios, Poema, Temata Logotehnias (Greece); Nashe Pismo (Macedonia); Posdata, Vida Universitaria (Mexico); Knijevne Novine, Knijevni Magazin, Kvartal, 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)

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

Individual translations: Ah Maria, Demokraticheski Pregled, Duma, Europe 2001, 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

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

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

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