Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova

Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (Bulgarian: Екатерина Петрова Йосифова) (born June 4, 1941)[1] is a Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet.[2]

Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova
Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova receives the Ivan Nikolov award in 2010
Native name
Екатерина Петрова Йосифова
Born (1941-06-04) June 4, 1941
NationalityBulgarian
Alma materUniversity of Sofia
Genrespoetry, journalism

Life

She was born in Kyustendil and studied Russian 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.

Award

She has received the Ivan Nikolov Award.[1]

Works[2]
  • 1969 – Kuso patuvane (Short travel)
  • 1972 – Noshtem ide vyatar (Wind is coming 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)

Works in English

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)[2]
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References
  1. "Meet a Bulgarian Poet: Ekaterina Yosifova". Accents Publishing.
  2. Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. pp. 354–55. ISBN 0415159806.



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