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Ekaterina Yosifova

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Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova
Yosifova receives the Ivan Nikolov award in 2010
Yosifova receives the Ivan Nikolov award in 2010
Native name
Екатерина Петрова Йосифова
Born(1941-06-04)4 June 1941
Kyustendil, Kingdom of Bulgaria
Died13 August 2022(2022-08-13) (aged 81)
Alma materUniversity of Sofia
GenresPoetry, journalism

Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (Bulgarian: Екатерина Петрова Йосифова; 4 June 1941 – 13 August 2022)[1][2] was a Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet.[3]

Life

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Yosifova was born in Kyustendil and studied Russian language at the University of Sofia. Yosifova was employed as a high school teacher in Kyustendil and then later as a newspaper editor.

She published Kuso putuvane ('Brief Journey') in 1969 and Noshtem ide vyatur ('The Wind Comes at Night') in 1972. Yosifova became editor-in-chief for Struma, a literary magazine.

Awards

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Yosifova received the Ivan Nikolov Award [bg].[1]

Works

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  • 1969 – Kuso patuvane ('Short Travel')
  • 1972 – Noshtem ide vyatar (The Wind Comes at Night')
  • 1978 – Posveshtenie ('Dedication')
  • 1983 – Kushta v poleto ('House in the Field')
  • 1987 – Imena ('Names')
  • 1993 – Podozrenia ('Suspicions')
  • 1994 – Nenuzhno povedenie ('Useless Conduct')
  • 1998 – Malko stihotvorenia ('Few Poems')
  • 2001 – Nishto novo (100 stihotvorenia) ('Nothing New: 100 Poems')
  • 2004 – Nagore nadolu ('Up and Down')
  • 2006 – Ratse ('Hands')
  • 2010 – Tazi zmiya ('This Snake')
  • 2014 – Tunka knizhka ('Slim Booklet')

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Works translated to English

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Her work, translated into English, has appeared in the anthologies:

  • Windows on the Black Sea (1992)
  • Clay and Star (1992)
  • The Manyvoiced Wave: Contemporary Women Poets of Bulgaria, Translators Tsvetelina Ganeva; Richard Scorza, Samkaleen Prakashan, 1999, ISBN 9788170831532
  • An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1994)[3]

References

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