Kamelia Spassova

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Kamelia Spassova was born in 1982 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated with a MA in Theory of Literature from Sofia University (2005-2006) with master thesis The genre of tragedy: Muthos and Doppelgangers. At present she is a PhD student at the Theory of Literature department where she is working on Event and Example in the order of Discourses for Literature: The Problem of Exemplarity Work which deals with the tension between literary examples and exemplarity work in philosophical and theoretical researches.


Kamelia is a founder-member of the art-group Ustata (The Mouth), the purpose of which is to outline and visualise, to designate and enunciate the art of young artists. The art-group has organised poetry and visual medium events. She has published the collection of lyrics Parcel N: 17 ( Plot No17). Her works are translated in Danish, Croatian and German.
As of 2009 she is the editor of Literaturen vestnik ( Literary Newspaper).


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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