Acclaimed Translator and Artist MIROSLAVA PANAYOTOVA has since joined on global audience building strides with Bulgarian prolific poet and writer VIOLETA BONCHEVA . Panayotova have been translating poetry and writings of poets from across the globe and in this installment , she has adapted poems by another Poet BONCHEVA from Bulgarian into English in order to reach international readership . Both of them are prolific and artistic personalities and have published widely across genres.PANAYOTOVA-graduated from Plovdiv University, specialized in Bulgarian philology. She has have published poems, stories, tales, aphorisms, essays, criticisms, translations, articles and interviews in periodical and collections. Panayotovas poetry booksincludes: Nuances, 1994, God of the senses, 2005, Whisper of leaves, 2017, Green feeling, 2018; two books with stories: An end, and then a beginning, 2017, The path of love, 2018; two eBooks: Laws of communications /aphorisms/, 2018, Old things /poetry/, 2018. She an ardent a member of the Union of the Independent Bulgarian Writers and a member of the International Association of Independent Writers “Sodrujestvo”.VIOLETA BONCHEVA is the author of the following books:”Wet Etude”, poetry – published by “Izblik” 1990.”Mirror“, poetry – ed. Litforum, 1995
“Invited moment, poetry” – ed. Palmyra ”, 1998“History of the disease”, prose – ed. “Silver Lion”, 1998“There will be no farewell”, poetry – Kota Publishing House, 2005
The Big Sombrero, bilingual, for children – Palmira Publishing House, 2003VIOLETA BONCHEVA is the author of the following books:“Wet Etude”, poetry – published by“Izblik” 1990.“Mirror”, poetry – ed. Litforum, 1995
“Invited moment, poetry” – ed. Palmyra ”, 1998“History of the disease”, prose – ed. “Silver Lion”, 1998“There will be no farewell”, poetry – Kota Publishing House, 2005
The Big Sombrero, bilingual, for children – Palmira Publishing House, 2003
“In the navel of the moon”, poetry, bilingual – ed. Domino, 2007
“Contemporary Mexican playwrights”, collection, translation, electronic – ed. “Liternet.bg”, 2010. TIME OF POET REPUBLIC is rooted in the values of Diversity , Inclusivity and Creativity . We feature English poems by Writer VIOLETA BONCHEVA as translated by Poet , Artist and Translator MIROSLAVA PANAYOTAVA-( Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).
She sprouted in the lush bitter stuff of the yard
as if the dock had blossomed
without any secret in her eyes
with solemn breasts
like Easter bells
the owner of bird songs
dog and cat
she watched the hyacinths and the dill
and talked to me about old things
finally she put a colourful distaff
from Gornal Oryahovitsa
in my hands
so that I don’t get lost along the way
I
the world citizen
🌿🌿🌿
HOMESICKNESS
I learned to swim
to reach the shores of salvation
but I know
that not fatigue from the distance
and my sadness
heavier than myself
will drown me
DECEMBER TWELFTH
I follow the matachines’ sandals
Aztec costumes and feathers
accompany the clap
of leather ties
Sudden rain washes away
my unforgiven sins
and the road
which I will pass here
PICTURE
From the plane
Mexico City
looks like a lump of sugar
flattened in melted chocolate
in a blue porcelain plate
around for luxury
something green is waving
I swallow this picture
because I suspect
that then not everything
it will happen delicious
VIOLETA BONCHEVA is the author of the following books:”Wet Etude”, poetry – published by “Izblik” 1990.”Mirror“, poetry – ed. Litforum, 1995
“Invited moment, poetry” – ed. Palmyra ”, 1998
“History of the disease”, prose – ed. “Silver Lion”, 1998
“There will be no farewell”, poetry – Kota Publishing House, 2005
The Big Sombrero, bilingual, for children – Palmira Publishing House, 2003VIOLETA BONCHEVA is the author of the following books:“Wet Etude”, poetry – published by “Izblik” 1990.
“Mirror”, poetry – ed. Litforum, 1995
“Invited moment, poetry” – ed. Palmyra ”, 1998
“History of the disease”, prose – ed. “Silver Lion”, 1998
“There will be no farewell”, poetry – Kota Publishing House, 2005
The Big Sombrero, bilingual, for children – Palmira Publishing House, 2003
“In the navel of the moon”, poetry, bilingual – ed. Domino, 2007
“Contemporary Mexican playwrights”, collection, translation, electronic – ed. “Liternet.bg”, 2010
9. “In the navel of the moon”, poetry, bilingual, electronic – published by “Lulu”, Buenos Aires, 2015.
“Lilium”, short stories and short stories – ed. Torch, 2013
“Drops from Escobedo”, stories and short stories – “Mirror” Publishing House, 2018.
“The truest love”, play – Community Center “Teacher Peter Ivanov”, 2020.
“Give me a flower”, poetry – IC “Mirror”, 2020.Translated from Spanish and published books of poetry and prose:“A Bunch of Broken Mirrors”, micro stories, author Beatrice Giovanna Ramirez (Colombia) – published in Spain, 2013.
“Bulgarian Anthology”, Alfredo Perez Alencart – ed. Salamanca, Spain, 2013
“Inner Voice”, poetry – Astrid Fuhele – Chile, electronic, – Mirror Publishing House
“Sheet and Paper Fan” – Mario Garcia Alvarez, Chile
“Selected interviews of Alfredo Perez Alencart” – Madrid, Spain, 2020.Violeta Boncheva is the winner of the first and third prizes of the competition “Veselin Hanchev”, Stara Zagora (for prose and poetry in its first edition in 1984), first prize of the competition “Love, without which we can not” – Varna, 2003, several first prizes for writing a text based on music by GP-Music – 2004, third prize for poetry, announced by the electronic edition Public-Republic – 2008, NGO Award, Vishnev tsvyat ”, Kazanlak – 2014, SBU nomination for successful prose, published in 2018 – “Drops of Escobedo” – 2019.
Winner of the award for poets, “Nikolay Liliev”, of the Municipality of Stara Zagora – 2013.International awards:Publishers Award for the poem “That Street”, Washington, 2003The Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Bulgaria, for the bilingual children’s book “The Big Sombrero” – 2003Nomination for the grand prize of an international competition for writing a poetry book in Spanish, in the name of Pilar Fernandez Labrador, University of Salamanca – 2017. , “You’ve never touched virgin sand”
“Honorary Titus” Award for the story “Things that happen” from the competition “Naji Naaman” – Lebanon, 2018.Award from the literary edition Rosanamusica, Buenos Aires, 2018, for the story “Things that happen”, 2018. and others.She has participated as an author and translator in over 30 books, as well as in electronic literary magazines in Spain, Latin America and others.Some of her poems and stories have been translated into Spanish, French, Catalan, Swedish, Armenian, English and others. languages, and published in numerous anthologies and literary journals.
Graduate professor of Spanish at the Universities of Salamanca, Granada and Santiago de Compostela, Spain.In the navel of the moon”, poetry, bilingual – ed. Domino, 2007″Contemporary Mexican playwrights”, collection, translation, electronic – ed. “Liternet.bg”, 2010
9. “In the navel of the moon”, poetry, bilingual, electronic – published by “Lulu”, Buenos Aires, 2015.
“Lilium”, short stories and short stories – ed. Torch, 2013
“Drops from Escobedo”, stories and short stories – “Mirror” Publishing House, 2018.”The truest love”, play – Community Center “Teacher Peter Ivanov”, 2020.
“Give me a flower”, poetry – IC “Mirror”, 2020.
Translated from Spanish and published books of poetry and prose:
“A Bunch of Broken Mirrors”, micro stories, author Beatrice Giovanna Ramirez (Colombia) – published in Spain, 2013.
“Bulgarian Anthology”, Alfredo Perez Alencart – ed. Salamanca, Spain, 2013
“Inner Voice”, poetry – Astrid Fuhele – Chile, electronic, – Mirror Publishing House
“Sheet and Paper Fan” – Mario Garcia Alvarez, Chile
“Selected interviews of Alfredo Perez Alencart” – Madrid, Spain, 2020.Violeta Boncheva is the winner of the first and third prizes of the competition “Veselin Hanchev”, Stara Zagora (for prose and poetry in its first edition in 1984), first prize of the competition “Love, without which we can not” – Varna, 2003, several first prizes for writing a text based on music by GP-Music – 2004, third prize for poetry, announced by the electronic edition Public-Republic – 2008, NGO Award, Vishnev tsvyat ”, Kazanlak – 2014, SBU nomination for successful prose, published in 2018 – “Drops of Escobedo” – 2019.
Winner of the award for poets, “Nikolay Liliev”, of the Municipality of Stara Zagora – 2013.
International awards:Publishers Award for the poem “That Street”, Washington, 2003
The Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Bulgaria, for the bilingual children’s book “The Big Sombrero” – 2003Nomination for the grand prize of an international competition for writing a poetry book in Spanish, in the name of Pilar Fernandez Labrador, University of Salamanca – 2017. , “You’ve never touched virgin sand”
“Honorary Titus” Award for the story “Things that happen” from the competition “Naji Naaman” – Lebanon, 2018.Award from the literary edition Rosanamusica, Buenos Aires, 2018, for the story “Things that happen”, 2018. and others.She has participated as an author and translator in over 30 books, as well as in electronic literary magazines in Spain, Latin America and others.Some of her poems and stories have been translated into Spanish, French, Catalan, Swedish, Armenian, English and others. languages, and published in numerous anthologies and literary journals.
Graduate professor of Spanish at the Universities of Salamanca, Granada and Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
MIROSLAVA PANAYOTOVA-graduated from Plovdiv University, specialized in Bulgarian philology. She has have published poems, stories, tales, aphorisms, essays, criticisms, translations, articles and interviews in periodical and collections. Panayotovas poetry booksincludes: Nuances, 1994, God of the senses, 2005, Whisper of leaves, 2017, Green feeling, 2018; two books with stories: An end, and then a beginning, 2017, The path of love, 2018; two eBooks: Laws of communications /aphorisms/, 2018, Old things /poetry/, 2018. She an ardent a member of the Union of the Independent Bulgarian Writers and a member of the International Association of Independent Writers “Sodrujestvo”.
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