Tsvetanka Elenkova

Tsvetanka Elenkova, Writer, Literary Translator

Prizes

Nominated:

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

Publications

Time and Relation (Small Stations Press, 2007) - essays
The Seventh Gesture (Zaharii Stoyanov/Sofia University Press, 2005) - poetry
Amphipolis of the Nine Roads (Nov Zlatorog, 1998) - poetry
The Stakes of the Legion (Nava, 1995) - poetry

Anthologies in Bulgaria: Lirika (NDK, 2003-7); Beginning of the Century: The Newest Bulgarian Poetry (Language and Literature, 2001); Anthology of the 90s: Bulgarian Classics (Ah Maria, 1999)

Anthologies abroad: Poems of Greek Texture (IWTCR, Greece, 2008); Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry (Polja, Serbia, 2007); Magoncok és morzsák: Bolgár apró irások (Napkut Kiado, Hungary, 2006); Douze Poètes de Trois Pays Voisins (Desmos, France, 2002)

Individual publications in Bulgaria: Altera, Ah Maria, Democratic Review, Europe 2001, Kapital Light, Knijen Sviat, Kritika, Kultura, Language and Literature, Literary Balkans, Literature Academy, Literature Forum, Literature Newspaper, Ognishte, Orpheus, 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, Temata Logotehnias (Greece); Nashe Pismo (Macedonia); Posdata, Vida Universitaria (Mexico); Knijevne Novine, Knijevni Magazin, Kvartal, Mejay, Polja (Serbia); Cumhuriyet (Turkey); Modern Poetry in Translation, Orient Express (UK); Potjah 76 (Ukraine); Absinthe (US)

Translations

From English:

Raymond Carver, Luck (Small Stations Press, 2008)
Jonathan Dunne, Even Though That (Proxima-RP, 2004)
Various authors, Speaking of Siva (AB Atelier, 2000)

From Macedonian:

Bogomil Gjuzel, Cosmogony and Apocalypses (Balkani, 2008)

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

Individual translations: Ah Maria, Democratic Review, Duma, Europe 2001, Literary Balkans, Literature Newspaper, Panorama, Plamak, Savremennik, Slovoto, Svetilnik, Trud (Bulgaria)

Editions

Editor & translator of Modern English Poetry - series of poetry in Bulgarian translation

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

Editor-in-chief of Europe 2001 (Sofia, 2002-7) - socio-cultural magazine

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

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

Editor of special issue of Literature Newspaper devoted to Greek literature (2000)

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

Athens University (2000) - Diploma in Greek

Pitman Examinations Institute (1994) - Diploma in English

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