ACCORDING TO A SPECIALIST'S OPINION
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You are watching
a football match.
I am making salad
just for myself.
I know already
to be lonely is when
you are with somebody
who is not with you.
Kristin Dimitrova - a Bulgarian poet, writer, journalist and translator
- was born in 1963 in Sofia. Graduated in English and American Studies from the
Sofia University, she now works as an assistant professor at the Department of
Foreign Languages. Since 2004 she has been editor of Art Trud, the weekly
supplement for arts and culture of the Trud Daily. Kristin Dimitrova is
the author of eight books of poetry: Jacob's Thirteenth Child (1992); A
Face Under the Ice, (1997); Closed Figures (1998); Faces with Twisted
Tongues, (1998); Talisman Repairs (2001); Selected Poems in Greek
(transl. by Panos Stathoyannis), Bulgarian and English (2002); The People with
the Lanterns (2003). A Visit to the Clockmaker (2005) was translated
by Gregory O'Donoghue and published by Southword Editions, Cork, Ireland. Kristin
Dimitrova is the author of two books of prose - Tarot: the Doors Within
(LIK Publishers, 2001), non-fiction, and the short-story collection Life and
Death under the Crooked Pear Trees (Obsidian Publishing House, 2004). Both
have been printed in several editions so far. Dimitrova's literary awards include
five national "poetry of the year" awards, one award (second place)
for poetry performance in Stockholm, two awards for best short stories and one
for the translation of a selection of John Donne's poetry into Bulgarian. Translations
of her poems and short stories have been published in anthologies and literary
journals in Austria, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania,
Macedonia, The Netherlands, Serbia, Poland, Sweden, and USA.
© Kristin Dimitrova
© Gregory O'Donoghue, translated
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Other publications:
Kristin Dimitrova. A Visit to the Clockmaker. Cork: Southword Edition (Ireland),
2005.