Heaven is a Total Bore!

"Vera, when I go to church I see people who on entering the church they make the sign of the cross mechanically in front of the icons, because heaven is a total bore. Saint next to a saint. And when they go, they stop to watch hell with wide open eyes. What a sight!"

Yordan Radichkov

Vera Mutafchieva (1929-2009), a remarkable Bulgarian women, historian, academician and writer, meets and talks to Yordan Radichkov, a Nobel prize nominee for literature. You can read find their conversation here - http://veramutafchieva.net/pdf/215.pdf.

A Useful Link: Bulgarian Folklore

The author of this site offers a list of useful links to translations of Bulgarian folk tales.

Contemporary Bulgarian Writers on Fiction Writing

The handbook of "Sozopol Fiction Seminars" featuring articles by Georgi Gospodinov, Deyan Enev, Theodora Dimova and others.

The Legendary Trayanov in English

I roamed alone and enchanted

in forest unknown and bleak,
a face, radiating and candid,
was following me in the thick.

Excerpt from "Vagabond's Balad" by Teodor Trayanov

Some of Teodor Trayanov's works translated in English.

Nikolay Haytov in English!

The wonderful site Kroraina offers this English translation of Nikolay Haytov's Wild Tales. Enjoy!

Literatura bulgara en español

Principales escritores búlgaros con sus biografías y obras.

Ein Überblick aus 1859: Südslawische Literatur

"Magazin fur die Literatur des Auslandes" 111-112 bietet seine Leser ein Bericht über die damalige Lage der Südslawischen Literatur und in diesem Zahl, auch der Bulgarischen Literatur. Keinesfals eine glaubwürdige Quelle für die Geschichte der Bulgarischen Literatur, aber trotzdem ist der Artikel interessant zu lesen.