Kamelia Spassova
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
Word Express in Scotland
9th - 15th August
See a new generation of talented poets and translators Raman Mundair,
Ryan van Wynkle, Marko Pogačar,
Found in Translation
"I’ve got this sickly taste in my mouth... "
an extract and video from Sian Melangell Dafydd's
The Third Thing
"Sitting up on the bed, you strain and plunge like a frogman among
wobbegong dorsal fins."
three poems from Radu Vancu