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.
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Speaking of Siva (translated by A. K. Ramanujan) was first published by Penguin, London, in 1973. |
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