Maria Kalinova
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.
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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