Ekaterina Yosifova Explained
Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (; 4 June 1941 – 13 August 2022)[1] [2] was a Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet.
Life
Yosifova was born in Kyustendil and studied Russian language at the University of Sofia. Yosifova was employed as a high school teacher in Kyustendil and then later as a newspaper editor.
She published Kuso putuvane ('Brief Journey') in 1969 and Noshtem ide vyatur ('The Wind Comes at Night') in 1972. Yosifova became editor-in-chief for Struma, a literary magazine.
Awards
Yosifova received the .[1]
Works
- 1969 – Kuso patuvane ('Short Travel')
- 1972 – Noshtem ide vyatar (The Wind Comes at Night')
- 1978 – Posveshtenie ('Dedication')
- 1983 – Kushta v poleto ('House in the Field')
- 1987 – Imena ('Names')
- 1993 – Podozrenia ('Suspicions')
- 1994 – Nenuzhno povedenie ('Useless Conduct')
- 1998 – Malko stihotvorenia ('Few Poems')
- 2001 – Nishto novo (100 stihotvorenia) ('Nothing New: 100 Poems')
- 2004 – Nagore nadolu ('Up and Down')
- 2006 – Ratse ('Hands')
- 2010 – Tazi zmiya ('This Snake')
- 2014 – Tunka knizhka ('Slim Booklet')
Works translated to English
Her work, translated into English, has appeared in the anthologies:
- Windows on the Black Sea (1992)
- Clay and Star (1992)
- The Manyvoiced Wave: Contemporary Women Poets of Bulgaria, Translators Tsvetelina Ganeva; Richard Scorza, Samkaleen Prakashan, 1999,
- An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1994)[3]
Notes and References
- Web site: Meet a Bulgarian Poet: Ekaterina Yosifova . Accents Publishing.
- https://impressio.dir.bg/litsa/otide-si-poetesata-ekaterina-josifova Отиде си поетесата Екатерина Йосифова
- Book: Miller, Jane Eldridge. Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing . 354–55 . 2001 . 0415159806 .
