Work­ing lan­guages: Eng­lish

Field of work: English-language fic­tion and non-fiction in the human­it­ies

Short bio­graphy: Milena Pop­ova was born in Sofia and gradu­ated in Bul­gari­an Philo­logy from Sofia Uni­ver­sity. She has trans­lated nov­els, short stor­ies and plays, as well as texts on lit­er­at­ure stud­ies, polit­ics, philo­sophy, art, etc. Over the past 15 years, she has also worked as an edit­or of both fic­tion and non­fic­tion texts in trans­la­tion.

Selec­ted trans­la­tions:

• Bron­islaw Malin­owski, A Sci­entif­ic The­ory of Cul­ture. The Func­tion­al The­ory, 2004
• Car­ol Shields, The Stone Diar­ies, 2005
• Dav­id Lodge, Home Truths, 2005
• Tru­man Capote, А Tree of the Night and Oth­er Stor­ies, 2009
• Jef­frey Eugen­ides, Middle­sex, 2009
• Ruth Praw­er Jhab­vala, Heat and Dust, 2012
• Dav­id Mameth, Theatre, 2014
• Siri Hustvedt, Sum­mer Without Men, 2014
• E. L. Doc­torow, Andrew’s Brain, 2016
• Siri Hustvedt, The Blaz­ing World, 2017
• Jef­frey Moore, The Extinc­tion Club, 2017

Awards:

• Winner of the spe­cial 2017 Krastan Dyankov Trans­la­tion Award.

Con­tact:

• milena_popova [at] abv​.bg