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Vanya Petkova

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Vanya Petkova (Template:Lang-bg; 1944 – April 2009) was a Bulgarian writer and translator.[1]

She was born in Sofia and studied Slavic philology at Sofia University and Spanish at the Jose Marti Institute for Foreign Languages in Havana. Petkova was editor for the journal Slaveiche, for the newspaper Literaturen front and for the journal Suvremenik.[2] She worked as a translator at the Bulgarian Embassy in Khartoum.[1] Her poetry has been translated into English, Spanish, French, Russian, Greek, Armenian, Polish, Czech, Hindi and Arabic.[2]

Selected works[2]

  • Солени ветрове (Salt winds) (1965)
  • Привличане (Attraction) (1967)
  • Грешница (Sinner) (1968)
  • Черната гълъбица (Black dove) (1972)
  • Обратна река (Counter-river) (1976)
  • Обет за мълчание (Vow of silence) (1979)
  • Триптих (Triptych) (1980)

References

  1. ^ a b "Почина поетесата Ваня Петкова". Darik (in Bulgarian). April 26, 2009.
  2. ^ a b c Wilson, Katharina M (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Vol. Volume 1. p. 983. ISBN 0824085477. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)