Kapka Kassabova

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Kapka Kassabova (2017)

Kapka Kassabova , Bulgarian Капка Касабова (* 1973 in Sofia , Bulgaria ) is a Bulgarian writer , poet and travel journalist.

Life

After the upheaval in communist Bulgaria in 1989, her family emigrated to New Zealand , where Kassabova studied French and Russian literature at the University of Otago and English literature and creative writing at the Victoria University of Wellington . In 2004 she moved to England. She lives in the Scottish Highlands .

In 2008 Kassabova published Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria (German: Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria ). The British newspaper The Guardian described the book as "a meditation on the profound upheavals that took place in Eastern Europe in the wake of the events of 1989".

At the beginning of 2018, her book Border , published in English, received the Stanford Dolman Award for 2017 as “Best travel book of the year” . In the same year this book was published in German under the title The Last Frontier. At the edge of Europe, in the middle of the world .

Publications

Kapka Kassabova and Philipp Blom at the presentation of the book The Last Frontier on September 4, 2018 in the Bruno Kreisky Forum in Vienna
  • All Roads Lead to the Sea. Auckland University Press, 1997, ISBN 1-86940-177-8 .
  • Dismemberment. Auckland University Press, 1999, ISBN 1-86940-207-3 .
  • Reconnaisance. Penguin Group, 1999, ISBN 0-14-028343-9 .
  • Love in the Land of Midas. Penguin Books, 2001, ISBN 0-14-100012-0 .
  • Someone Else's Life. Bloodaxe, 2003, ISBN 1-85224-617-0 .
  • Photographic processing of the poem Shadows and Light by Marti Friedlander . Fogarty Hojsgaard Entwistle Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007.
  • Geography for the Lost. Bloodaxe, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85224-765-2 .
  • Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria. Portobello, 2008, ISBN 978-1-8462-7123-6 .
  • Villa Pacifica. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-8468-8151-0 .
  • Border: a Journey to the Edge of Europe . London: Granta, 2017
  • The final frontier. At the edge of Europe, in the middle of the world . Zsolnay, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-552-05907-8 (English: Border. A Journey to the Edge of Europe . London 2017. Translated by Brigitte Hilzensauer).

literature

  • Jonathan Bastable, Hannah McGill (Eds.): The 21st century novel: notes from the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference . Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2014

Web links

Commons : Kapka Kassabova  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Guardian Review July 05 2008
  3. ↑ Best travel book of the year: Kapka Kassabova's Border wins Stanford Dolman award , theguardian.com, February 1, 2018, accessed February 2, 2018
  4. ↑ The final frontier. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Reading sample: The last frontier. (PDF; 398 KB) Accessed August 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ The final frontier. In: Bruno Kreisky Forum. September 4, 2018, accessed October 17, 2019 (with audio file (1:10:13)).
personal data
SURNAME Kassabova, Kapka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kassabowa, Kapka; Касабова, Капка (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian writer, poet and travel journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Sofia , People's Republic of Bulgaria