Four contemporary poets – four paths to renewing Bulgarian poetry
Author of the Week: Bulgaria
Ivan Hristov (1978, Bulgaria) is a poet and a literary researcher. He is the author of the poetry collections Сбогом, деветнайсти век (Farewell, Nineteenth Century, National Prize for the best poetic debut Southern Spring 2002), Бдин (Bdin, National literary prize Svetlostruy 2006) and Американски поеми (American Poems, 2013), as well as of two academic monographs. Любовен речник (A Dictionary of Love), his fourth poetry book, was published in 2018.
His works have been translated into a dozen of languages. In 2015, Bdin was published in Turkish. The next year Bdin followed by American Poems came out in Romania. In 2019, within the framework of the European project Versopolis his third poetry book American Poems was published in Paris, France, and his fourth poetry collection A Dictionary of Love, in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2021, an anthology with his poems was published in Poland. In 2022, a collection of his love poems was published in Slovenia under the title I am your grain of sand. Since 2019, Ivan Hristov has been a director of the Sofia: Metaphors Poetry Festival International Program. He currently works as an Associate Professor at the Institute for Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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Author of the Week: Bulgaria