Literary Event: Encounters with Bulgarian History

Literary Event: Encounters with Bulgarian History

Sofia Gallery, 4 PM

The British Bulgarian Society with the support of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute

will be presenting

Encounters with Bulgarian History

At 4.00 pm on Saturday 21 March

BBS members will be presenting their work and translations, inspired by moments in Bulgaria’s recent and distant past.

Contributors include:

John Osborne, who has lectured extensively on matters architectural and is currently writing A Traveller’s History of Bulgaria.  He will be sharing his translations of Bulgarian Renaissance poets.

Nigel Middlemiss, who has assembled a fascinating anthology Travellers’ Tales, about impressions of visitors to Bulgaria over the centuries.  It is available via the internet with proceeds going to support a Bulgarian school.

Dr Donald Kenrick, author of many books, celebrating Bulgarian Romany culture, who will read a translation from the recently deceased Ivan Apostolov Traykov.  

Christopher Buxton, translator and novelist whose work has focused on personal relationship between westerners and Bulgarians in many historic contexts.

Annie Buxton, who will present her book Tamara Shishman and Murad I, about the marriage of the Bulgarian Princess Kera Tamara with Ottoman Sultan Murad in the context of the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans.