ABOUT

TEODORA STANKOVA is a journalist and cultural manager. She graduated from Sofia University "St Kliment Ohridski" with a degree in philology and journalism. Throughout her career, she has worked as a journalist in different print media. She is the author of the book “In & After Time” which presents the most prominent contemporary Bulgarian poets, writers and cultural figures. She is also the founder of the "Sofia Metaphors" Foundation and executive director of the annual Sofia Metaphors International Poetic Festival in Sofia. The festival has been held every year for the last 6 years and is a part of the official cultural calendar of Sofia Municipality and also is a part of the international poetry Platform “Versopolis”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IVAN HRISTOV (1978, Bulgaria) is a poet and a literary researcher. He is the author of the poetry collections Сбогом, деветнайсти век (Farewell, Nineteenth Century, National Prize for the best poetic debut Southern Spring 2002), Бдин (Bdin, National literary prize Svetlostruy 2006) and Американски поеми (American Poems, 2013), as well as of two academic monographs. Любовен речник  (A Dictionary of Love), his fourth poetry book, was published in 2018.

His works have been translated into a dozen of languages. In 2015, Bdin was published in Turkish. The next year Bdin followed by American Poems came out in Romania. In 2019, within the framework of the European project Versopolis his third poetry book American Poems was published in Paris, France and his fourth poetry collection A Dictionary of Love, in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2021, an anthology with his poems was published in Poland. In 2022, a collection of his love poems was published in Slovenia under the title I am your grain of sand. Since 2019, Ivan Hristov has been a director of the Sofia: Metaphors Poetry Festival International Program. He currently works, as an Associate Professor at the Institute for Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

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