Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova, bulgarisch Капка Касабова (* 1973 in Sofia, Bulgarien) ist eine bulgarische Schriftstellerin, Dichterin und Reisejournalistin. Nachdem sie ihr Heimatland als Jugendliche verließ, lebte sie einige Jahre in England und Neuseeland. Derzeit wohnt sie in Edinburgh (Schottland).[1]

Im Jahr 2008 veröffentlichte Kassabova Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria (deutsch: Straße ohne Namen: Kindheit und andere Wirrungen in Bulgarien). Die britische Zeitung The Guardian bezeichnete das Buch als „Meditation über die tiefgreifenden Umwälzungen, die sich im Zuge der Ereignisse von 1989 in Ost-Europa abspielten“.[2]

Publikationen

Einzelnachweise

  1. Kapka Kassabova's website
  2. Guardian Review July 05 2008



Wikimedia Foundation.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Schlagen Sie auch in anderen Wörterbüchern nach:

  • Kapka Kassabova — [ [http://www.kapka kassabova.com/bio.shtml Kapka Kassabova s website] ] The Australian journalist Clive James has said of her: “In the suitcase that she has mentally lived out of since she was a little girl, Kapka Kassabova has brought the… …   Wikipedia

  • Montana New Zealand Book Awards — The Montana New Zealand Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand… …   Wikipedia

  • 1998 in New Zealand — IncumbentsRegal and Vice Regal*Head of State Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand *Governor General The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM, GCMG, QSO [ [http://www.gg.govt.nz/gg/former.htm] ] GovernmentThe 45th New Zealand Parliament… …   Wikipedia

  • 1998 in poetry — yearbox2 in?=in poetry in2?=in literature cp=19th century c=20th century cf=21st century yp1=1995 yp2=1996 yp3=1997 year=1998 ya1=1999 ya2=2000 ya3=2001 dp3=1960s dp2=1970s dp1=1980s d=1990s da=0 dn1=2000s dn2=2010s dn3=2020s|Events* Samizdat… …   Wikipedia

  • Deyan Enev — (Bulgarian: Деян Енев) (b. 11 August 1960) is a Bulgarian writer[1] and journalist. Biography Deyan Enev was born in 1960 in Sofia. He graduated from Sofia s First English Language School and later completed a degree in Bulgarian Philology at… …   Wikipedia

  • Dolman Best Travel Book Award — The Dolman Best Travel Book Award is one of the two principal annual travel book awards in Britain, and the only one that is open to all writers.[1] The other award is that made each year by the British Guild of Travel Writers, but that is… …   Wikipedia

  • West Port Book Festival — The West Port Book Festival is a book festival which is held in Edinburgh during the busy Edinburgh Festival season. The festival was first run in 2008 for a four day stretch from 14th 17th August. [ [http://westportbookfestival.org West Port… …   Wikipedia

  • Liste bulgarischer Schriftsteller — Dieser Artikel stellt eine Liste bulgarischer und bulgarischsprachiger Schriftsteller und Dichter nach deren Nachname dar. Inhaltsverzeichnis A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

  • New Zealand literature — Introduction       the body of literatures, both oral and written, produced in New Zealand. Maori narrative: the oral tradition       Like all Polynesian peoples, the Maori, who began to occupy the islands now called New Zealand about 1,000 years …   Universalium

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”