Palmi Ranchev

Palmi Ranchev was born on 9.02.1950 in Sophia, Bulgaria.

In 1971 he graduated from the Higher National Sport Academy “Vasil Levski” in Sophia and was a boxer (Junior champion in 1966 ), coach, master of café and gambling hall, director of a news-paper, script writer, anchor person and freelance journalist.

Palmi Ranchev writes prose and poetry:

Collections of verses:

• 2007 — “Such a blue, visible and invisible”
• 2004 — “The lover of lonely streets and left houses”
• 2002 — “A midnight man: biographies”
• 2000 — “Quietly and forever”
• 1998 — “A hotel room”
• 1997 — “Torn flag”
• 1996 — “A hat of a wanderer”
• 1995 — “People and things”
• 1993 — “Manhattan: almost an event”

Collections of stories:

• 2007 — “Some luck for future”
• 2003 — “Amateurs and professionals”
• 1997 — “Sunday lunch”
• 1994 — “Street games”
• 1993 — “Difficult breath”

Novels:

• 2006 — “Anonymous snipers”
• 2000 — “Direction towards Sacramento”
• 1998 — “Streets and avenues”

Palmi Ranchev is a winner of a number of literary awards beginning from the debut collection of verses which was nominated by the prize for the first book “Southern spring”. His stories and verses are included in Bulgarian and foreign collections of the modern Bulgarian literature and translated in many European languages.

Photos:
Meeting with the Bulgarian writer Palmi Ranchev

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