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Bulgarian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Bulgaria or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Elena Alexieva (born 1975), poet, short story writer, novelist, translator B *Elisaveta Bagriana (1893–1991), early poet, magazine editor, poems translated into English * Miryana Ivanova Basheva (1947–2020), poet * Tania Boteva-Malo (born 1950), French-language writer, novelist, living in Brussels * Iana Boukova (born 1968) Bulgarian poet, novelist, playwright and literary translator D * Svetla Damyanovska, contemporary poet, novelist * Alexenia Dimitrova (born 1960s), investigative journalist * Blaga Dimitrova (1922–2003), poet, Vice-President of Bulgaria * Kristin Dimitrova (born 1963), widely published poet, short story writer, editor, columnist, translator * Theodora Dimova (born 1960), novelist, playwright * Guerguina Dvoretzka (born 1954), poet, novelist, journalist * Emiliya Dvoryanova (born 1958), successful novelist E * Zdravka Evtimova (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the tenth largest within the European Union and the List of European countries by area, sixteenth-largest country in Europe by area. Sofia is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city; other major cities include Burgas, Plovdiv, and Varna, Bulgaria, Varna. One of the earliest societies in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria was the Karanovo culture (6,500 BC). In the 6th to 3rd century BC, the region was a battleground for ancient Thracians, Persians, Celts and Ancient Macedonians, Macedonians; stability came when the Roman Empire conquered the region in AD 45. After the Roman state splintered, trib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsvetta Kaleynska
Tsvetta Kaleynska (Bulgarian: Цвета Калейнска; born June 19, 1988), better known as Tsvetta, is an entrepreneur, author, and media personality. Early life Tsvetta was born and raised in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria in the family of a university professor and a gynaecologist, both of Bulgarian descent. In 2008, Tsvetta moved to the United States on an academic scholarship to pursue her higher education. In 2012, she graduated from St. Francis College, with dual degrees in Marketing Management and International Business and Economics. In 2015, she received a master's degree in Public Administration from the City University of New York at Baruch College. Career and writing In 2012 Tsvetta joined the Dogs Bollocks 5 as a consulting strategist specializing in social media analysis and market research. In 2015 she moved to Brandwatch as customer success director. In 2019, she founded RILA GLOBAL CONSULTING, a boutique consumer insights agency. She has held leadership r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Popova
Maria Popova (; born 28 July 1984) is a Bulgarian-born, American-based essayist, book author, poet, and writer of literary and arts commentary and cultural criticism that has found wide appeal both for her writing and for the visual stylistics that accompany it. In 2006, she started the blog ''Brain Pickings'', an online publication that she has fought to maintain advertisement-free. The blog, renamed to ''The Marginalian'' upon its 15th birthday in 2021, features her writing on books, the arts, philosophy, culture, and other subjects. In addition to her writing and related speaking engagements, she has served as an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow, as the editorial director at the higher education social network Lore, and has written for ''The New York Times'', ''The Atlantic'', ''Wired UK'', and other publications. Since 2010, she has resided in Brooklyn, New York. She is the creator of "The Universe in Verse", a large-scale annual celebration of science and the natural worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Ognianova
Nina Ognianova () is a Bulgarian journalist and rights activist, coordinator of the Europe and Central Asia Program of the Committee to Protect Journalists since 2006. Formerly a staff writer for the International Journalists' Network, since 2007 she has been a prominent figure in the investigations of the murders of Russian, Central Asian and Turkish journalists. In September 2009 she published a report ''Anatomy of Injustice'' on unsolved journalist murders in Russia, and in October 2012 published ''Turkey's Press Freedom Crisis'', which investigates the anti-press campaign under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. She has written numerous articles for major world newspapers; in September 2009 she authored an article "Getting away with murder in Russia:The unsolved killings of 17 journalists has had a chilling effect on the work of Russia's press" for ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Gua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milena Nikolova
Milena Nikolova (; born 31 October 1984, in Sliven) is a Bulgarian writer. Life Milena Nikolova attended the High school of foreign languages in her hometown Sliven where she studied the English and German languages. In 2003 she entered the University of National and World Economy in Sofia and in 2008 she obtained a bachelor's degree in International economic affairs. In the same year she applied for a Master's course in New Bulgarian University, also in Sofia. There, in 2009 she obtained a master's degree in "International Business". In the same year she also got post-graduate diplomas in Physiotherapy and in Spa-Therapy from the National Sports Academy "Vassil Levski" in Sofia. In 2011, Milena Nikolova obtained her second master's degree in "English and methodology". When she was a young student, Milena Nikolova spent 8 years as a member of a creative writing class in the United school of arts "Misho Todorov" in Sliven, which was led by the writer Evgenia Genova. Creati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandra Monedzhikova
Aleksandra Mihailova Monedzhikova (24 January 1889 – 2 July 1959) (also spelled Monedžikova or Monedjikova) was a Bulgarian geographer, historian, writer and teacher. Biography Aleksandra Monedzhikova (in Bulgarian, Александра Монеджикова) was born 24 January 1889 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria; her parents were a judge and a teacher. Her grandmother and grandfather had been refugees from the region of Bansko, Bulgaria, who settled in Plovdiv after the brutal suppression of the Kresna-Razlog uprising of 1878. In 1906 her parents moved to the country's capital city of Sofia to work. Monedzhikova graduated from the Second Sofia Girls' High School in 1907, after which she became a teacher in the village of Transka Klisura (Transka district, Western suburbs). There she married Naiden Nikolov, a teacher at the same school, and from that time she was sometimes known as Aleksandra Monedzhikova-Nikolova. During the academic year 1908-1909 she was also a student of histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leda Mileva
Leda Mileva ( Bulgarian: Леда Милева) (5 February 1920 – 5 February 2013) was a Bulgarian writer, translator and diplomat. She was the daughter of Bulgarian poet Geo Milev Geo Milev (born Georgi Milev Kasabov; – 15 May 1925) was a Bulgarian poet, translator, and journalist. He is perhaps best known for his epic poem ''Septemvri'', written during the Bulgarian September Uprising. Life Geo Milev was born Georgi .... Mileva was ambassador and resident representative of Bulgaria in UNESCO until 1978. ReferencesФактор - Леда Милева откраднала идеята за Зайченцето Бяло о ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aksinia Mihaylova
Aksinia Mihaylova () (born April 13, 1963) is a Bulgarian translator, editor and poet. Her first name also appears as Askinia. She was born in Rakevo village, northwest Bulgaria and was educated at a Lycée français in Vratsa, at the State Institute of Library Studies in Sofia and at the Slavic philology department of Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski. She worked for two years at the regional library in Shumen. In 1990, she helped found the first independent literary journal in Bulgaria ''Ah, Maria'' and continued on as part of its editorial team. From 1994 to 1998, she worked for the Paradox publishing house. As of early 2015, she was living in Sofia. Mihaylova has translated more than 30 books into Bulgarian, both poetry and prose, by authors such as Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Sylvie Germain and Alexis Jenni; she has also published anthologies of Lithuanian and Latvian poetry. She has published five books of her own poems in Bulgarian and her poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruzha Lazarova
Ruzha Lazarova (; Sofia, 1968) is a Bulgarian French language writer who currently lives in Paris. She studied at the Lycée Français de Sofia and she later studied French literature at the Sofia University. She started publishing short stories in Bulgarian and was awarded with ''Young Prose'' Bulgarian Prize in 1990. She has also published two short stories in French and a play, which was performed at the “Festival de la Correspondance” in Grignan Grignan (; ) is a commune in the Drôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association. It has a Renaissance castle .... Novels *''Sur le bout de la langue'' (1998) *''Cœurs croisés'' (Flammarion, 2000) *''Frein'' (Balland, 2004) *''Mausolée'' (Flammarion, 2009) References External linksWriter's website 1968 births Living people Writers from Sofia Bulgarian writers in French Bulgarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lora Lazar
Lora Lazar is the pen name of a contemporary Bulgarian crime writer. Education The author graduated from the National School of Plastic Arts and the Dechko Uzunov Academy in Kazanlak before attending Sofia University, where she received a master's degree in History and Philosophy and a Postgraduate degree in Cultural Studies. In less than two years, four of her books were published in Bulgaria. Works *In December 2011, her first novel ''The Cursed Goblet,'' appeared. The book won the national competition for crime novel or short story written "In Agatha Christie’s Footsteps", presented by the Bulgarian publisher "Era" and the website "I read". *Released in May 2012, Lazar's second novel ''The Sinful Neighbourhood'' was published by "Iztok-Zapad" and was included in their “Magica” series. *Her third novel was published by Trud in September, 2012, entitled ''Heavens of Sin''. *Released on March 4, 2013, Lora Lazar's fourth novel ''A Borrowed Killer'' was published by "Iztok-Za ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva (; ; born Yuliya Stoyanova Krasteva, ; on 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She has taught at Columbia University, and is now a professor emerita at Université Paris Cité. The author of more than 30 books, including '' Powers of Horror'', ''Tales of Love'', ''Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia'', ''Proust and the Sense of Time'', and the trilogy ''Female Genius'', she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation. Kristeva became influential in international critical analysis, cultural studies and feminism after publishing her first book, ''Semeiotikè'', in 1969. Her sizeable body of work includes books and essays that address intertextuality, the semioti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
