{"id":203,"date":"2015-10-28T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/?p=203"},"modified":"2015-10-29T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T10:06:39","slug":"velina-minkoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Velina Minkoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VelinaMinkoffPhoto\"<\/a>Work\u00ading lan\u00adguages<\/strong>: Bul\u00adgari\u00adan, Eng\u00adlish, French<\/p>\n

Field of work<\/strong>: fic\u00adtion, art his\u00adtory, theat\u00ader, cinema, archi\u00adtec\u00adture, psy\u00adcho\u00adlogy, music<\/p>\n

Short bio\u00adgraphy<\/strong>: Velina Minkoff was born in 1974 in Sofia, Bul\u00adgaria. She holds a BA<\/span> in Eng\u00adlish from UCLA<\/span> with a track in Cre\u00adat\u00adive Writ\u00ading \u2013 Fic\u00adtion, and a Master\u2019s degree in European Stud\u00adies from the Uni\u00adver\u00adsity of Ams\u00adter\u00addam with a track in European cul\u00adture and his\u00adtory.<\/p>\n

She trans\u00adlated The Love Machine, <\/em>a nov\u00adel by Amer\u00adic\u00adan author Jaqueline Susann (Colibri, Bul\u00adgaria, 1992) while still a stu\u00addent at the Eng\u00adlish Lan\u00adguage School in Sofia. That same year, Velina trans\u00adlated from Eng\u00adlish to Bul\u00adgari\u00adan the film script of the Nor\u00adweigan entry in the Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Tele\u00advi\u00adsion Fest\u00adiv\u00adal Zlat\u00adnata rakla <\/em>(Plov\u00addiv, Bul\u00adgaria) which won first prize in the youth TV<\/span> film sec\u00adtion and was broad\u00adcast on Bul\u00adgari\u00adan Nation\u00adal Tele\u00advi\u00adsion. In 1993, she trans\u00adlated into Eng\u00adlish a radio drama by aspir\u00ading Bul\u00adgari\u00adan play\u00adwright Pla\u00admen Sta\u00admen\u00adov, which won the Brit\u00adish Council\u2019s Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Play\u00adwrit\u00ading Com\u00adpet\u00adi\u00adtion and was broad\u00adcast on the BBC<\/span> World Ser\u00advice. Later that year, Velina trans\u00adlated Jacintha, <\/em>a nov\u00adel by Brit\u00adish author Kath\u00adleen Win\u00adsor (Bard, Bul\u00adgaria, 1993.)<\/p>\n

While study\u00ading in the US<\/span>, Velina col\u00adlab\u00ador\u00adated with Bul\u00adgari\u00adan artists and musi\u00adcians for the trans\u00adla\u00adtion of poetry for song lyr\u00adics and con\u00adtem\u00adpor\u00adary art exhib\u00adi\u00adtions. Dur\u00ading her gradu\u00adate stud\u00adies in the Neth\u00ader\u00adlands, she trans\u00adlated into Eng\u00adlish the film sub\u00adtitles of Let\u00adter to Amer\u00adica <\/em>(Bul\u00adgaria, 2001) by dir\u00adect\u00ador Iglika Tri\u00adfonova, for its screen\u00ading at the Noor\u00addelijk<\/em> Film Fest\u00adiv\u00adal in 2003, where it won the grand prize of the jury.<\/p>\n

Velina was selec\u00adted as a par\u00adti\u00adcipant in the Trans\u00adlat\u00adors\u2019 Atelier Work\u00adshop of the Eliza\u00adbeth Kostova Found\u00ada\u00adtion for three con\u00adsec\u00adut\u00adive years (2013, 2014 and 2015.) In 2015, she trans\u00adlated into Eng\u00adlish What We Don\u2019t Know About Love, <\/em>a non-fiction psy\u00adcho\u00adlogy and com\u00admu\u00adnic\u00adtion skills best\u00adseller by Bul\u00adgari\u00adan author Milena Dinkova-Rodriguez (Colibri, Bul\u00adgaria, 2015.)<\/p>\n

Velina lives in Par\u00adis, where she teaches Eng\u00adlish, freel\u00adances as a trans\u00adlat\u00ador and edit\u00ador and is cur\u00adrently work\u00ading on a short story col\u00adlec\u00adtion in Bul\u00adgari\u00adan, which will include her own trans\u00adla\u00adtions of stor\u00adies she ori\u00adgin\u00adally wrote in Eng\u00adlish.<\/p>\n

Selec\u00adted trans\u00adla\u00adtions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n