"La Sapienza" in Rome is one of the oldest and most prestigious Italian universities, founded in 1303. Today it is the largest university in Europe by the number of full-time students. Similar to other higher education institutions in Italy, the..
In front of a packed room of literary connoisseurs at the iconic Rizzoli Bookstore in New York, Booker laureate Angela Rodel presented her translation of the novel The Case of Cem , one of Vera Mutafchieva's best-known works. The..
Bulgarian Margarita Stein has been living in Berlin for 27 years and in 2007 she founded the first family-owned publishing house in the German capital. Together with her husband - a historian and researcher of the Balkans, she focused on the goal of..
Bulgarian writer Zdravka Evtimova received the inaugural 2023 Dr. T. O'Connor Sloane Prize in speculative fiction literature for h er novel “He May Wear My Silence”. The award recognizes Evtimova as “one of..
The oldest writers' organization in Europe - the Union of Bulgarian Writers - is marking 110 years since its founding with official festive events in Sofia . The current chairman of the union is Boyan Angelov - a Bulgarian poet, literary historian..
The Union of Bulgarian Writers is celebrating 110 years since its foundation. The creative association was established on September 8, 1913. Ivan Andreychin (literary and theater critic, poet, fiction writer, playwright and translator) was elected its..
Teachers from the Bulgarian Sunday schools abroad have gathered at an annual meeting at the University of Veliko Tarnovo "St. St. Cyril and Methodius". "We are the modern awakeners, because we preserve and transmit the Bulgarian language. To teach in..
The anthology "River of Words", which includes texts from contemporary and classical Bulgarian literature translated into English, French and German, will be presented today, January 30, in Brussels. The compiler of the collection and its main..
A century ago, on September 22, 1921, the patriarch of Bulgarian literature Ivan Vazov closed his eyes for the last time, bequeathing to the generations some of the most beautiful words dedicated to Bulgaria. His adoration and sincere love of..
Revolutionary, poet, journalist, publisher. In his brief lifetime Hristo Botev wrote around 20 poems, even so the body of his work is considered to be the apex of Bulgarian literature. Deeply emotional, the verses he wrote when Vassil Levski..
