{"id":49,"date":"2015-06-25T19:47:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/?p=49"},"modified":"2015-06-25T20:04:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T20:04:11","slug":"alexander-shurbanov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Shurbanov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Alexander-Shurbanov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-51 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Alexander-Shurbanov-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Shurbanov\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>Work\u00ading lan\u00adguages<\/strong>: Eng\u00adlish<\/p>\n<p><strong>Field of work<\/strong>: Lit\u00ader\u00adary trans\u00adla\u00adtion, mainly poetry and poet\u00adic drama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short bio\u00adgraphy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born on 5<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> April 1941&nbsp;in Sofia. Gradu\u00adated in Eng\u00adlish lan\u00adguage and lit\u00ader\u00adat\u00adure at Sofia Uni\u00adver\u00adsity, 1966. Taught Eng\u00adlish lit\u00ader\u00adat\u00adure at Sofia Uni\u00adver\u00adsity from 1971 to 2008. PhD, 1972. Doc\u00adtor Habil., 1991. Pro\u00adfess\u00ador of Eng\u00adlish lit\u00ader\u00adat\u00adure \u2013 since 1995. Found\u00ading mem\u00adber of the Uni\u00adon of Trans\u00adlat\u00adors in Bul\u00adgaria \u2013 since 1974. First Pres\u00adid\u00adent of the Bul\u00adgari\u00adan Soci\u00adety for Brit\u00adish Stud\u00adies, 1990\u201396. Pres\u00adid\u00adent of the Three Seas Writers\u2019 and Trans\u00adlat\u00adors\u2019 Coun\u00adcil, Rhodos, Greece, 1997\u20132002. Mem\u00adber of inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal organ\u00adiz\u00ada\u00adtions: The European Soci\u00adety for the Study of Eng\u00adlish (<span class=\"caps\">ESSE<\/span>); The Eng\u00adlish Asso\u00adci\u00adation (Fel\u00adlow); The Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Shakespeare Asso\u00adci\u00adation; <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal. Lect\u00ador at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsity of Lon\u00addon (1970\u201371), the Uni\u00adver\u00adsity of Cali\u00adfor\u00adnia, Los Angeles\/ <span class=\"caps\">UCLA<\/span> (1979\u201381); Pro\u00adfess\u00ador at the State Uni\u00adver\u00adsity of New York \/ <span class=\"caps\">SUNY<\/span> at Albany (2004), the <span class=\"caps\">WSU<\/span> Kielce (2007\u20132012). Doc\u00adtor hon\u00adoris causa of the Uni\u00adver\u00adsity of Kent (1990) and the Uni\u00adver\u00adsity of Sur\u00adrey (1993), <span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selec\u00adted trans\u00adla\u00adtions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geof\u00adfrey Chau\u00adcer, <em>The Can\u00adter\u00adbury Tales<\/em>, 1970, 1980, 1994, 2008<\/li>\n<li><em>The Theatre of the Eng\u00adlish Renais\u00adsance <\/em>(Plays by Mar\u00adlowe, Jon\u00adson, Deck\u00ader, Web\u00adster, Middleton), 1975<\/li>\n<li>Beat\u00adrix Pot\u00adter, <em>Tales, Peter Rab\u00adbit<\/em>, 1979, 1988, 2009<\/li>\n<li>John Milton, <em>Para\u00addise Lost<\/em>, 1981, 2008<\/li>\n<li>Rabindranath Tagore, <em>Poetry, Words with the Rhythm of Etern\u00adity<\/em>, 1985, 2009<\/li>\n<li>Dylan Thomas, <em>And Death Shall Have No Domin\u00adion. Selec\u00adted Poems<\/em>, 1993<\/li>\n<li><em>Eng\u00adlish Poetry. An Antho\u00adlogy<\/em>, 1995<\/li>\n<li>John Updike, <em>Ger\u00adtrude and Claudi\u00adus<\/em>, 2003<\/li>\n<li>Wil\u00adli\u00adam Shakespeare, <em>Ham\u00adlet<\/em>, 2006<\/li>\n<li>Shakespeare, <em>The Great Tra\u00adgedies: Ham\u00adlet, Oth\u00adello, King Lear, Macbeth<\/em>, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Taylor Col\u00aderidge, <em>Poetry and Prose<\/em>, 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Awards<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sofia Uni\u00adver\u00adsity Hon\u00ador\u00adary Medal with Blue Rib\u00adbon, 2001<\/li>\n<li>The Nation\u00adal Hristo G. Dan\u00adov Award for Con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtion to Cul\u00adture, 2007<\/li>\n<li>The Nation\u00adal Stoy\u00adan Bakardzhiev Award for Lit\u00ader\u00adary Trans\u00adla\u00adtion, 2007<\/li>\n<li>The Uni\u00adon of Trans\u00adlat\u00adors\u2019 Cer\u00adti\u00adfic\u00adate for Con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtion to the Art of Trans\u00adla\u00adtion and Lit\u00ader\u00adary Stud\u00adies, 2010<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Askeer<\/em> Hon\u00ador\u00adary Prize for Cre\u00adat\u00adive Dis\u00adtinc\u00adtion and Con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtion to the Art of the Theatre, 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Con\u00adtact<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>phone: (02) 866 1044; e\u2011mail: <a href=\"mailto:a.shurbanov@gmail.com\">a.shurbanov@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work\u00ading lan\u00adguages: Eng\u00adlish Field of work: Lit\u00ader\u00adary trans\u00adla\u00adtion, mainly poetry and poet\u00adic drama Short bio\u00adgraphy: Born on 5<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> April 1941&nbsp;in Sofia. Gradu\u00adated in Eng\u00adlish lan\u00adguage and lit\u00ader\u00adat\u00adure at Sofia Uni\u00adver\u00adsity, 1966. Taught Eng\u00adlish lit\u00ader\u00adat\u00adure at Sofia Uni\u00adver\u00adsity from 1971 to 2008. PhD, 1972. Doc\u00adtor Habil., 1991. Pro\u00adfess\u00ador of Eng\u00adlish lit\u00ader\u00adat\u00adure \u2013 since 1995. Found\u00ading mem\u00adber [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spblit.org\/wp-eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}