Poetry
“Bodies live a narrow life, souls are their coasts of rescue.”
The quotation is from the back cover of Yavor Tzanev’s latest collection of short stories Silent as the Grave, published in 2020 by the Gaiana publishing house. The metaphor of coast of rescue relates to his biography: the writer was born (1971) and lives in Ruse – a city where the aristocratic silhouettes of the old Viennese-style buildings reflect upon the slowly running waters of the Danube – a river which is a geographical representation of the interconnectivity among European cultures and European narratives. The glory of the city is amplified by the fact that it is the birthplace (1905) of the Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti.
Prose
Ina Ivanova is the author of the following collection of short stories: Right of Choice and Other Calamities (Ars, 2009), The Name of Sunday (Janet 45, 2012) and A Flying Accordion (Janet 45, 2014); of the novel Kar Tanesi (e-book); and the poetry collections small letters (Janet 45, 2016) and Wings of papier-mâché (Janet 45, 2019). She publishes work in the Bulgarian literary magazines and journals Suvremennik, Literaturen Vestnik, Stranitsa, Glossi, NO Poeziya, DIVA!, as well as in the anthologies Other Water, 64 and Fathers Never Go Away. She has received national literary awards and her texts have been translated into English, Russian, Polish, Farsi, Arabic, Croatian and Serbian.
Essays
