Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova
Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet
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| Intro | Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet | |
| Places | Bulgaria | |
| is | Journalist Poet Dramaturge | |
| Work field | Entertainment Journalism Literature | |
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| Birth | 4 June 1941 | |
| Age | 83 years |
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Biography
Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (Bulgarian: Екатерина Петрова Йосифова) (born June 4, 1941) is a Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet.
Life
She was born in Kyustendil and studied Russian 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.
Award
She has received the Ivan Nikolov Award.
Works
- 1969 – Kuso patuvane (Short travel)
- 1972 – Noshtem ide vyatar (Wind is coming 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 in 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, ISBN 9788170831532
- An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1994)
- Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. pp. 354–55. ISBN 0415159806.