The Seventh Gesture - Elenkova, Tsvetanka
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Tsvetanka Elenkova was born in Sofia in 1968. She has published three poetry collections - The Stakes of the Legion (1995), Amphipolis of the Nine Roads (1998) and The Seventh Gesture (2005) - and a book of essays on the Balkans, Time and Relation (2007). Her work has been translated into 12 languages. She is also a critic and has edited the literary magazine Ah Maria, the socio-cultural magazine Europe 2001 and the Greek literary magazine Helios. She translates from English, Greek and Macedonian. She is the Bulgarian Writers Association's representative at the International Writers and…mehr

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Tsvetanka Elenkova was born in Sofia in 1968. She has published three poetry collections - The Stakes of the Legion (1995), Amphipolis of the Nine Roads (1998) and The Seventh Gesture (2005) - and a book of essays on the Balkans, Time and Relation (2007). Her work has been translated into 12 languages. She is also a critic and has edited the literary magazine Ah Maria, the socio-cultural magazine Europe 2001 and the Greek literary magazine Helios. She translates from English, Greek and Macedonian. She is the Bulgarian Writers Association's representative at the International Writers and Translators Centre of Rhodes. She also co-directs the publishing house Small Stations Press.
Autorenporträt
Tsvetanka Elenkova (Sofia, 1968) has published six poetry collections and three books of essays in the Bulgarian language. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Magnification Forty received a PEN Translates award in 2022 and is the third collection by this author to appear in English, after The Seventh Gesture (2010) and Crookedness (2019). The Seventh Gesture has been published in French by Tertium Éditions and in Spanish by Vaso Roto, Crookedness in French by Corps Puce. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Absinthe, Modern Poetry in Translation, New Humanist, Poem and The Poetry Review. Her poem 'The Train' was selected for the sixtieth-anniversary issue of The Massachusetts Review. 'Cherni Vrah' featured in the United Nations anthology Happiness: The Delight-Tree. She is the editor of a bilingual Bulgarian-English anthology, At the End of the World: Contemporary Poetry from Bulgaria, which showcases the work of seventeen contemporary Bulgarian poets. In 2019 she was awarded the prestigious award Pencho's Oak in her native Bulgaria for the body of her work. She is currently working on a book of poems on the spiritual content of JMW Turner's paintings. More info on her website: www.tsvetankaelenkova.com.