Maria Kalinova

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Maria Kalinova was born in1983 in Sliven, Bulgaria. She graduated in Bulgarian Philology at the Faculty of Slavic Philologies, Sofia University with a MA degree in Literary Theory with a thesis Narrowed Publicity: Cryptographies in the Bulgarian Revival Correspondence (2006). She is a PhD student in Bulgarian Literature of the Revival Period at the same University. The topic of her dissertation is Literary Publicity and the Construction of Figures of Morality. Together with Kamelia Spassova she is working on the project: Doubles as Uncanny Figures in Literature. She is co-founder of the art-group Ustata (The Mouth).

At the beginning of 2009, Maria became an editor of Literaturen vestnik ( Literary Newspaper). She has participated in poetry festivals abroad and had her poetry is translated into Croatian and German. She has published two books of poems Okoto ( The Eye), 2004 and Podnogieto na vecheriata ( Under the Knife of Supper), 2008.


News

New Word Express participant Hywel Griffiths sent us English translations of three of his poems. You can read them here alongside the originals.
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If you've been wondering what Word Express writers have been working on recently, you'll be pleased to hear that Owen Martell's novel 'Dyn Yr Eiliad' has been translated into Serbian by Milan Dobričić's Read the full story here.

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Using photography and music from our multi-talented Word Express writer-travellers, we've put together this short slide show with music from Ivan Hristov's band Gologan.

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