Monthly Archives: September 2015

Kaloyan Veselinov Pramatarov

Working languages: French, English, Latin, Ancient Greek

Field of work: European fiction, Humanities

Short biography:

2011–2014 – PhD in Ancient Thracian and Roman Archaeology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”;

2008–2011 – MA in Ancient Thracian Archaeology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”;

2003–2007 – BA in Archaeology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”;

1997–2003 – Language High School “St. Sofia”, Sofia.

Selected translations:

In the field of belles lettres:

Schwob, Marcel, Le roi au masque d’or, SONM, 2013 ;
Rodenbach, Georges, L’Art en exil, SONM, 2011;
Nodier, Charles, Contes fantastiques, SONM, 2010 ;

In the field of humanities:

Sergent, Bernard, Celtes et Grecs. Le livre des héros, SONM, 2011 ;
Dosse, François, La marche des idées. Histoire des intellectuels – histoire intellectuelle, SONM, 2007;
Piarotas, Mireille, Des contes et des femmes. Le vrai visage de Margot, SONM, 1^st ed. 2003, 2^nd ed. 2006.

Contact:

email: kaloyan.pramatarov@gmail.com, sonm@abv.bg

Iliyana Chalakova

Working languages: Portuguese

Field of work: literary translation (novels, poetry and theatre) from Portuguese to Bulgarian

Short biography: Iliyana Chalakova is born in 1980 in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She is graduated in Portuguese Studies by the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” and has a master degree in Translation and Edition by the same university got after the defense of a master thesis in the field of the African Portuguese-speaking Literature. Chalakova followed a one-year specialization programme in Contemporary Portuguese Literature at the University of Lisbon benefitting of a scholarship by the Portuguese Cultural Institute and later got a second master degree in Women’s Studies by Lisbon’s university Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Currently, she is a PhD student in Contemporary Portuguese Literature and works on a dissertation focused on the sociological view in the literary criticism. Since 2005 she has been working as economic journalist, translator with Portuguese and assistant professor in Contemporary Portuguese Language and Culture, Theatre Translation and Economics Translation at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies of the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Chalakova has publications and interests in the field of the gender view through the body code in the Portuguese Literature, Contemporary Portuguese Dramaturgy and African Portuguese-speaking Literature. She has been a participant in conferences in the field of the Portuguese-speaking Studies in Bulgaria and abroad.

Selected translations:

José Saramago, Seeing, Sofia: Colibri, 2013;
Alexandre Herculano, Legends and Narratives, Sofia: Altera, 2011;
“Mythology and gender in Penthesilea”, Literature Journal nº 8, 29.02–6.03.2012;
„Gender mosaic”, Pages Magazine, nº 3, 2008.

Contact:

Bulgaria, 4000 Plovdiv, 13ª, Aleksandar Pushkin Str., floor 3, ap. 7
tel. + 359 888 78 66 07
e‑mail: iliyana.chalakova@gmail.com
skype: trinca.pintosi

Darin Tenev

Working languages: Japanese, English, French

Translation Field: Literature, Theory, Philosophy

Short biography: Darin Tenev is an associate professor at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”. He is also a director of the Institute for Critical Social Studies. He has bachelor degree in Bulgarian Philology and Japanese Studies and Master Degree in Literary Studies. He holds a PhD in Literary Theory. He has published two books: Fiction and Image (2012) and Digressions. Essays on Jacques Derrida (2013).

Selected translations in Bulgarian:

Tanikawa Shuntaro, Patuvane, Sofia: Litavra, 2001.
Ernesto Laclau, Emancipation(s), Sofia: Litavra, 2004.
Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human (a novel), In: No Longer Human and other stories, Sofia: Altera, 2011.

Contact:

email: darin.tenev@gmail.com

Aneta Dantcheva-Manolova

Working languages: English, French, Dutch and Russian; reading skills in Hindi

Field of work: Literary translation – Dutch and Flemish poetry and prose; Film translation

Short biography:

Born in Sofia.
The “St. Kliment Ochridsky” University of Sofia - Journalism; Dutch language (a second specialty).
Course “Dutch language and culture” in the Netherlands (The Nijenrode University, Breukelen), 1989.
Works for the Bulgarian National Television – Department “Films and Foreign programs”.
Translated for the television feature films, series, documentaries (incl. George Orwell’s “1984”).
Interview for the Dutch newspaper “NRC Handelsblad” as a translator.
Author/lector of Course “Belgium and Holland – Language, Culture and Society” – New Bulgarian University, Sofia (1998).
Translator and supervising editor of four Dutch and Flemish issues of the literary magazine “Plamak”.
Translator of the poem “Het weer” by Hugo Claus for The Belgian Poetry Wall in Sofia”.
Correspondent for Bulgaria of the Dutch radio (since January 1998).
A portrait on the Dutch radio as a correspondent, author and translator (2, August, 2002).
A publication “Literair vertalen in Bulgarije – een geluk of een nachtmerrie” (“Translation in Bulgaria: a happiness or a nightmare?”), literary magazine “Filter”(2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands).
Translation of “Belgie op het eerste gezicht”(2012, Belgium).
Member of Bulgarian Translators’ Union.
Member of the Union of the Bulgarian journalists.
Member of The Belgian Social Club by the Belgian embassy in Bulgaria.
Member of De Maatschappij der Nederlandse letterkunde (Society for Dutch Literature).
Officer in the order of Leopold II (Bestowing in 2007).

Selected translations: Books from Dutch language:

Turks fruit, a novel, Jan Wolkers;
Zeesteen, a choice from the poetry of Hans van de Waarsenburg;
De jager heeft een zoon, poetry, Jozef Deleu;
Het museum van allerdaagse leven, a choice of poems by Willem M. Roggeman;
Kleine raadsels, a choice of novellas and short stories by Louis Couperus;
Het Verlangen, a novel, Hugo Claus;
De ogen en de roep, selected poems, bilingua, Eddy van Vliet;
De kleuren van de droom, selected poems, Willem M. Roggeman;
De wetten, a novel, Connie Palmen;
De Eetclub, a novel, Saskia Noort;
Menuet, a novel, Louis Paul Boon;
Kosovo: de uitgestelde oorlog, non-fiction, Raymond Detrez;
Rituelen, a novel, Cees Nooteboom;
Een schitterend gebrek, a novel, Arthur Japin;
Serenade, a novel, Leon de Winter;
Weldoeners, a novel, Els de Groen;
Grote Europese roman, a novel, Koen Peeters;
Mr. Finney en de wereld op zijn kop, Laurentien van Oranje;
Goden cirkel , selectd stories, M.A. Biesheuvel.

Awards:

Annual prize of the Bulgarian Translators’ Union, 2013, for Grote Europese roman by Koen Peeters

Contact:

anetadan@yahoo.com,
Tel. 00359 2 8520836

Yordan Kosturkov

Working languages: English, Bulgarian

Field of work: Literary Translation

Short biography: Born Pazardhik, Bulgaria, 3 July 1948; Finished English Language Secondary School in Plovdiv, M Lett. in English from St Kliment Okhridski University of Sofia, Specialized at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, University of Louisvill, Kentucky, USA, Salzburg Austria, Loughborough, UK etc. PhD from The Paissii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv; Editor 1975–1988, Associate Professor at The Paissii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv

Selected translations:

Laurence Sterne Sentimental Journey through France and Italy,
Norman Mailer Tough Guys Don’t Dance,
Gore Vidal Washington D. C., 1876, Empire,
Willa Cather My Mortal Enemy,
Edith Wharton Ethan Frome etc.

Awards: Bulgarian Translators’ Union award, Plovidv Municipality Award etc.

Contact:

ykosturkov@yahoo.com,
Phone # 0886 178 739.

Literary Translation Section to Bulgarian Translators’ Union

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Monthly Archives: September 2015

Kaloyan Veselinov Pramatarov

Iliyana Chalakova

Darin Tenev

Aneta Dantcheva-Manolova

Yordan Kosturkov