Gancho Savov Ganchev

Work­ing lan­guages: all South-Slav – Slov­e­ni­an, Ser­bi­an, Croa­tian, Bos­ni­an, Monten­er­gi­an, Mace­do­ni­an.

Field of work: fic­tion

Short bio­graphy: Born in 1930 in Per­nik. Slavon­ic stud­ies in former Jugoslavia. He has worked in pub­lish­ing houses, media and Bul­gari­an Academy of Sci­ence. From 1974 to 1985 he was a polit­ic­al pris­on­er. He became an edit­or in media after his rehab­il­it­a­tion in 1990. 1995–1996 – chief edit­or of Pan­or­ama magazine, 1996–1998 – pres­id­ent of Bul­gari­an Trans­lat­ors’ Uni­on. After 1997 – teaches South Slav lit­er­at­ure, the­ory and trans­la­tion prac­tice etc. in Chair of Slavon­ic in Veliko Tirnovo Uni­ver­sity.

Selec­ted trans­la­tions:

  • Ser­bi­an stor­ies (1966, coau­thor Siyka Rache­va);
  • The Hero­ic Black­smith – Slov­e­ni­an tales, 1966;
  • Tsir­il Kos­match – Bread and Hap­pi­ness, short stor­ies, Slov­e­ni­an, 1974;
  • Blaga Dimitrova – Bos­nja, my Pain (1994, poems, to Bos­ni­an);
  • Bran­islav Nushich – Auto­bi­o­graphy, 2000;
  • Drago Jan­char – Tinkle in the Head, a nov­el, 2003, and The Build­er, a nov­el, Slov­e­ni­an 2011;
  • Yevr­em Birkovich – Gloss­aryi, essays, Montenegri­an, 2005;
  • Yosip Osty – Saraevo Book of the Deads, poems and prose, Bos­ni­an, 2003;
  • Grozdana Ouluich – Vote for Love, 2009 and Voices of the Wind, 2012, Ser­bi­an, nov­els;
  • Antho­logy of Ser­bi­an Humor, 2012 and oth­ers.

He is author of uni­ver­sity books, sci­entif­ic researches about South-Slav lit­er­at­ure, trans­la­tion, etc.

Awards:

  • 1991 – an annu­al award of Bul­gari­an Trans­lat­ors’ Uni­on and a hon­or­ary mark – 1992 and 2006;
  • 2000 – from Balkan­me­dia;
  • 2001 – from Ser­bi­an PEN centre;
  • 2003 – Nation­al Lit­er­at­ure “Racho Stoy­an­ov;
  • 2006 – Slov­e­ni­an “Pret­nar­eva Award” – for pop­ular­iz­a­tion of Slov­e­ni­an lit­er­at­ure and cul­ture; 2010 – Ser­bi­an “Excel­lenz of Satire” – for pop­ular­iz­a­tion of Ser­bi­an humor;
  • 2012 – world lit­er­at­ure award “Moth­er of God Three Armed” for pop­ular­iz­a­tion of Ser­bi­an lit­er­at­ure, etc.

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