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TSVETANKA ELENKOVA is co-director of the publishing house Small Stations Press. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1968, she was educated at the University of National and World Economics. She has published three collections of poetry: The Stakes of the Legion (1995), Amphipolis of the Nine Roads (1998) and The Seventh Gesture (2005). Her poetry has appeared in 13 different countries, including in the magazines Modern Poetry in Translation and Orient Express in the UK and Absinthe in the US. Her latest book is a collection of nine essays on the Balkans etc., Time and Relation, published by Small Stations Press. She translates from English, Greek and Macedonian. Her translation from English of the anthology of Indian mystic poetry Speaking of Siva was nominated for the Hristo G. Danov National Literary Award. Her other translations include: Jonathan Dunne's Even Though That and anthologies of poetry by Raymond Carver and Bogomil Gjuzel. She co-edits and translates the series Modern English Poetry. - - - 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 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 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 Jonathan Dunne's first poetry collection, Even Though That, 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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