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Bozhana Apostolova

Bozhana Apostolova is the well-known Bulgarian poet, prosaic and publisher. She was born on the Victory Day, May, 9 1945, graduated from Philological Faculty of University. Her first book was published in 1978 году. Since than she published 12 collections of poems and 2 prosaic books united under the title “Bible of weekdays”.

Now Bozhana Apostolova is laureate of several national and international awards for poetry as well as significant cultural contribution she has made publishing Bulgarian poets and prosaics, being the founder and CEO of the Printing and publishing house “Janette-45” in her native Plovdiv.

She deserves special gratitude for attention to Russian literature. Together with “Fakel” magazine Bozhana Apostolova publishes Bulgarian translations of modern Russian prose and poetry separately, while the profit of poetical books is negligible. It is quite a deed in the world of pure pragmatism and money power which doesn’t value the culture... The series “New Russian prose” gave way to Bulgarian translations of many famous Russian authors such as Victor Erofeev, Vladimir Voinovich, Edward Limonov, Anatoly Korolev, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Alexander Solzhenitsin, Vasily Axenev.

Bozhana Apostolova is the organizer of the largest literary festival in Bulgaria “Plovdiv reads” in which one-month framework writers from different countries read their texts in a Roman-built theatre. This festival has been conducted in Bulgaria for 5 years. Moreover, she organizes the festival of young authors “Young Plovdiv reads” and is also the founder of annual literary poetical premium “Ivan Nikolov”. In 2008 Bozhana Apostolova was awarded by the premium “Golden Muse”, in this connection the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation expressed his congratulations in the letter.

Bozhana Apostolova is the author of books:

1978 — “Nestinarska oris”, poetry

1986 — “Non-promised world”, poetry

1995 — “How mother was baptized”, poetry

1998 — “Drink of darkness”, poetry

1998 — “Bible of weekdays” (the first novel which won National literary award “Plovdiv”)

2001 — “Love to everyone”, poetry

2002 — “A man from the sky”, poetry

2003 — “The third state”, poetry

2005 — “Business Bible” (the second book, novel)

2005 — “Group”, poetry

2008 — “Only her”, poetry

2008 — “Without road crossings”, novel

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