Georgy Borisov

Georgy Borisov was born on July, 17 1950 in Sofia. He finished a school specializing in the French language in Sofia and graduated from Moscow Literary Institute named after Maxim Gor’ky in 1974. After graduation Georgy Borisov served in army forces in the border on Turkey, worked the editor in the news-paper “Literaturny front”, headed the department “Documentary and fiction literature” in Sofia editing house “Profizdat”, was a production director of the department “Literature and political critics” of Bulgarian National Television.

Since foundation of “Fakel” magazine (1981) Georgy Borisov was a vice editor-in-chief, beginning from 1990 he became the editor-in-chief. In 1991-1995 he was the founder and director of the publishing houses “Fakel” and “Fakel-express”. In 2005 he inspired and edited the library book series “New prose” which issues Bulgarian translations of mainly modern Russian authors (the publishing houses “Fakel” and “Janette-45”). From the beginning of 2009 he heads literary department of the Popular theatre named after Ivan Vazov in Sofia.

Georgy Borisov is the author of the poem books “At midday somewhere in the beginning” (1977), “Let the man” (1981), “Gates” (1986), “Comer” (1992), “Live God” (1997), “Karthagen” (2000), “At 3 sharply” (2008), a number of publications of documentary and literary prose including “Khiatus” (2007, together with Anatoly Korolev), journalistic and critical articles, essays, literary questionnaires and talks.

Georgy Borisov translates Russian, French and English poets. His poems are included in all the representative anthologies of Bulgarian poetry in the USA, Great Britain, French, Germany, Russia etc. Georgy Borisov participated in a number of international literary meetings and festivals including “Interlit- 82” (Cologne, Germany), All-European meeting of writers “Literary express 2000”, International meeting of writers “Literary ark” (Armenia, 2001), International poetical feasts in Struge (Macedonia, 2003), International literary feasts “Golden key” in Smederevo (Serbia, 2004), International meeting of writers in Belgrade (2004), the IV International Meeting of Translators, Editors and Theatre Directors (Vilneau-lez-Avinion, France, 2006), Days of Bulgarian culture “Balkan spring” in Normandy (2006), the I Moscow International Open Book Festival (2006) etc.

Georgy Borisov won many awards: Vladimir Bashev’s award for the best first collection of poems (1977), Big Award for poetry “Golden trinket” granted by the news-paper “Trud” (1999), Ivan Nikolov’s National Award for the best poetical book (2001), Slaveykov’s award for the best lyrical poem (2007) etc.

Georgy Borisov is the author of some songs which have become popular, a member of Bulgarian PEN-center.

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