Presentation of the Bulgarian writer Iana Bоukova and the translator Ekaterina Petrova in conversation with the British writer and translator Christopher Buxton

London Book Fair 2025 will take place from 11th to 13th March. We are proud that for the second consecutive year, the Bulgarian Cultural Institute London will provide a stand for Bulgarian authors and publishers at this global book festival in London. To further showcase our literature, the Bulgarian Cultural Institute London is organizing a Month of Bulgarian Literature from February 13th to March 13th. During this period, some of the most prominent Bulgarian writers and poets will be presented along with their English-language publishers.

“Presentation of Iana Bоukova and the translator Ekaterina Petrova in conversation with the British writer and translator Christopher Buxton” is one of the most important events, organised by BCI London. It will take place on 13th March 2025 from 19:00 PM at Bulgarian Cultural Institute.

Iana Boukova is a Bulgarian poet and writer. She is the author of five poetry books, two short story collections, and the novel Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow (Janet 45, 2014), which is forthcoming from New York Review Books in 2026. Her poetry collection Notes of the Phantom Woman (Janet 45, 2018), which received the National Award for most outstanding book of Bulgarian poetry, was published in English, jointly translated by John O’Kane and Ekaterina Petrova, by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2024. Boukova lives between Sofia and Athens, where she is an editor on the board of the influential Greek poetry magazine FRMK.

Ekaterina Petrova holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship. Over the last 15 years, she has translated novels, short stories, nonfiction texts, poetry, plays, and children’s books by many Bulgarian contemporary authors, including the anthologies My

Brother’s Suitcase, Fathers Never Go Away, and Stories from the ’90s (ICU Press, 2020, 2020, 2023), Iana Boukova’s poetry collection Notes of the Phantom Woman (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024), and Silvia Choleva’s book of prose fragments Journeys There and Back (ICU, 2025). Her translation of Iana Boukova’s novel Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow, for which she received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, is forthcoming from New York Review Books in 2026.

Christopher Buxton is a writer and translator who, since 2006, has been creating literary works focused on Bulgaria and has published four books with Bulgarian publishers. He is the founder of the Bulgarian publishing house Black Sea Oleander Press, which publishes anthologies of translated Bulgarian poetry. He is also the vice-chairman of the British-Bulgarian Society in the UK, through which he promotes Bulgarian authors. For his work, he received an order from the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria.

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