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

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

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