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TSVETANKA ELENKOVA was born in Sofia in 1968. She has published three poetry collections – The Stakes of the Legion, Amphipolis of the Nine Roads and The Seventh Gesture – and a book of essays, Time and Relation. The Seventh Gesture has appeared in a Serbian edition and is due out in February 2010 in an English edition with Shearsman Books. Her work has been translated into twelve languages and, in English, has appeared in the magazines Absinthe, International Literary Quarterly, Modern Poetry in Translation, Orient Express, Poetry Review and Zoland Poetry. She has been a guest at the Poeteka (Albania) and Vilenica (Slovenia) literary festivals. She has edited the magazines Ah Maria and Europe 2001 in Bulgaria and Helios in Greece. She translates from English and Greek. Her translation of the anthology 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 Jonathan Dunne, Bogomil Gjuzel and Fiona Sampson. She edits a series of contemporary British poetry for Balkani Press. She co-directs the publishing house Small Stations Press. - - - Read CV - - -

 

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Tsvetanka Elenkova's publications include:

 

Tsveta's book of nine essays about the Balkans etc., Time and Relation, published in Bulgarian by Small Stations Press, Sofia & London, 2007.

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Tsveta's third poetry collection, The Seventh Gesture, published in Bulgarian by Zaharii Stoyanov/Sofia University Press, Sofia, 2005.

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Tsveta's third poetry collection, The Seventh Gesture, published in Serbian by Povelja, Kraljevo, 2009.

 

 

Tsveta's second poetry collection, Amphipolis of the Nine Roads, published in Bulgarian by Nov Zlatorog, Sofia, 1998.

 

 

Tsveta's first poetry collection, The Stakes of the Legion, published in Bulgarian by Nava, Sofia, 1995.

 

 

Translation from English of The Distance Between Us by Fiona Sampson, published in Bulgarian by Balkani, Sofia, 2008.

 

 

Translation from English of an anthology of sixty poems by Raymond Carver, Luck, published in Bulgarian by Small Stations Press, Sofia & London, 2008.

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Co-translation with Rada Panchovska of Even Though That by Jonathan Dunne, published in English and Bulgarian by Proxima-RP, Sofia, 2004.

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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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