Literary Evening with the poetess and translator Dimana Ivanova

The Bulgarian Cultural Institute in London has the pleasure to invite you on 13.02.2025 from 19:00 to a special prelude to the celebration of love and wine – “St. Valentine’s Day” – a poetic-musical evening and the premiere of the latest poetry collections by Bulgarian poet Dimana Ivanova – the bilingual English-Czech edition “Border Landscapes/Pohraniční krajiny” (Explorer Editions, 2023) and “Pink Sun” (published by “Ergo”, 2021).

The books will be discussed by the writer and editor at “Siela” publishing house, Ganka Filipovska. The evening will feature classical music performed by leading Bulgarian musicians living and working in London – Zlatko Veličkov (violin and viola) and Vesela Shalamanova (piano).

The event is part of the initiative of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in London – “Month of Bulgarian Literature.”

Dimana Ivanova was born in Varna, Bulgaria, in 1979. She earned her master’s degree in Slavonic philology at the University of St. Kliment Ochridski in Sofia with a minor in French philology. She has been awarded twice the Grigor Lenkov prize at the Czech Centre in Sofia and the Prize of the Bulgarian Union of Translators in Sofia for the best translation of Bulgarian literature into foreign language for the year 2017. She has received her doctorate in comparative literature at the Charles University in Prague in 2011. She is the author of three poetry books: two of them are in Bulgarian – Pokana za bašta (Invitation for a Father, Ergo, 2012) and Azbuka na želanijata (Alphabeth of Desires, Scalino, 2016) and one in Slovak translation – Som ako morská voda (I am like the Water of the Sea, Ars poetica, 2018). Her poems have been translated into more than thirteen languages and published in many literary journals and anthologies in Bulgaria as well as abroad inthe USTower journal, Spanish journalsPurple wordsandHambre, Canadian-Romanian reviewDestine literareand others. From 2012 till 2019 she has been working as a teacher in high schools in Slovakia and Great Britain, from the year of 2021 till 2023 was working as a coordinator of educational and literary projects at the Czech Cultural Centre in Sofia and is currently working at the Consular department of the Slovak Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is also a member of the Czech Alliance of Journalists, Bulgarian Union of Translators, poetry movement Poetas del mundo and the Czech-Slovakian Association of Comparative Literature. She has been awarded several prizes for poetry: by the festival “On the Morava banks” in Czech Republic (2018), by the poetry competition “Mělnický Pegas” in Mělník, Czech Republic (2018), the Polish prize “Name of the rose” (2018), “Amavica” (2019) Prize in South оf France and prize for haiku of the Croatian Union of Writers (2019).

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