Work­ing lan­guages: Pol­ish

Field of work: poetry, essay, drama; his­tor­ic­al, soci­olo­gic­al, theo­lo­gic­al texts

Short bio­graphy: Born 7^th of March 1946, Sofia.

Edu­ca­tion: 1964–1969 – St. Clem­ent Ohrid­ski Uni­ver­sity of Sofia, Fac­ulty of Slavic Philo­lo­gies – MA in Bul­gari­an and His­tory; 1976–1979 – Uni­ver­sity of Warsaw, PhD in Soci­ology and Cul­ture.

Pro­fes­sion­al exper­i­ence: edit­or of cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al pro­grams of Bul­gari­an Nation­al Radio (1972–1993); edit­or of “Soci­olo­gic­al Prob­lems Quarterly” of Insti­tute of Soci­ology, Bul­gari­an Academy of Sci­ences (1996–2003).

Selec­ted trans­la­tions:

• Czeslaw Milosz – Zniewo­lony umysł (The Cap­tive Mind), Piesek przy­drożny (Road­side Dog), Na brzegu rzeki (Facing the River, Selec­ted Poems), Rok myśli­wego (The Hunter’s Year);
• Zbig­niew Her­bert – Potęga smaku (The Power of the Taste, Selec­ted Poems), Bar­bar­zyńca w ogrodzie (The Bar­bar­i­an in the Garden), Mart­wa natura z wędz­idłem (Still Life with Bridle);
• Rysz­ard Krynicki – Kam­ień, szron; Mag­netyczny punkt (Stone, Rime; Mag­net­ic Point);
• Ewa Lipska – Wakacje miz­an­tropa (The Vaca­tions of the Mis­an­thrope), Droga Pani Schubert (Dear Mis­sis Schubert);
• Tadeusz Różewich – Nożyk pro­fe­sora (The Professor’s Knife).

Awards:

• 1995 – Bul­gari­an Trans­lat­ors’ Uni­on Annu­al Reward – for Ewa Lipska’s Selec­ted Poems
• 1998 - Zasłużony dla kul­tury pol­skiej (Order Mer­it Cul­tur­al)
• 2000 - Krzyż Kawaler­ski Orderu Zasługi Rzeczy­po­spolitej Pol­ski (Crux Hon­our­able of O.M. of the Repub­lic Poland)
• 2004 – Bul­gari­an Trans­lat­ors’ Uni­on Annu­al Reward – for Zbig­niew Herbert’s Selec­ted Poems
• 2008 – Nom­in­a­tion for Christo G. Dan­ov Annu­al Reward – for Zbig­niew Herbert’s Still Life with Bridle
• 2014 – Pol­ish Annu­al Reward of ZAiKS

Con­tact:  vdejan@abv.bg

Work­ing lan­guages: Chinese, Ger­man, Rus­si­an, Eng­lish

Field of work: Chinese Stud­ies,  folk­lore and folk reli­gions of East­ern Asia

Short bio­graphy: Evelina Hein is assist­ant pro­fess­or in Chinese Lan­guage and Cul­ture at Sec­tion of Chinese Stud­ies, Cen­ter for Ori­ent­al Lan­guages and Cul­tures, Sofia Uni­ver­sity “St. Kli­ment Ohrid­sky”, Bul­garia. She is cur­rently PhD-candidate at the same sec­tion, writ­ing her dis­ser­ta­tion on „The Cult of Mount Tai in Chinese Folk­lore and Reli­gious Tra­di­tions “. Her pro­fes­sion­al interests include folk­lore and folk reli­gions of East­ern Asia, trans­la­tion stud­ies, trans­la­tions in the field of the human­it­ies.

Selec­ted trans­la­tions:

• The Chinese Dream of the Great Reju­ven­a­tion of the Chinese Nation by Xi Jin­ping, trans­la­tion from Chinese and com­ment­ary in cooper­a­tion with Todor Radev, Sofia 2015, “Iztok-Zapad” Pub­lish­ing House.
• Com­mon Know­ledge about Chinese Cul­ture (In Chinese and Bul­gari­an), trans­la­tion from Chinese, Beijing 2014, Beijing Lan­guage and Cul­ture Uni­ver­sity Press.
• Lexikon chin­es­is­cher Sym­bole: Die Bild­sprache der Chinesen“, (A Dic­tion­ary of Chinese Sym­bols: The visu­al Lan­guage of China) by Wolfram Eber­hard, trans­la­tion from Ger­man and foot­notes, Sofia 2005, “Iztok-Zapad” Pub­lish­ing House.
• Reli­gions of China by Daniel L. Over­my­er, in: Reli­gious Tra­di­tions of the World, trans­la­tion from Eng­lish, Sofia 2005, “Iztok-Zapad” Pub­lish­ing House.
• Chin­a’s Tra­di­tion­al Way of Health Pre­ser­va­tion by Zeng Qing­nan, Liu Daoqing, trans­la­tion from Eng­lish, Sofia 2004, “Iztok-Zapad” Pub­lish­ing House.
• Open­ing the Dragon Gate: The Mak­ing of a Mod­ern Taoist Wiz­ard, by Chen Kai­guo, Zheng Shunchao, trans­la­tion from Rus­si­an, Sofia 2003,  “Iztok-Zapad” Pub­lish­ing House.
• When Drink­ing Water, Remem­ber the Source – A Col­lec­tion of Chinese Pro­verbs and Pop­u­lar Say­ings, com­pil­a­tion and trans­la­tion from Chinese, intro­duc­tion, Sofia 2003, “Iztok-Zapad” Pub­lish­ing House.
• Chinese His­tory: Ancient China to 1911 by Hel­wig Schmidt-Glintzer, trans­la­tion from Ger­man, Sofia 2002, „Lik“ Pub­lish­ing House.
• The Unknown East – A Col­lec­tion of Asi­an Poetry and Prosa, Trans­la­tion from Chinese of Chapter I of the nov­el Look­ing for the unique and unre­peat­able one from the tri­logy The Bronze Age by Wang Xiaobo, Sofia 2001, Sofia Uni­ver­sity Press „St. Kli­ment Ohrid­sky“.

Con­tact: evelinahein@abv.bg, hein@uni-sofia.bg