Ekaterina Yosifova

Bulgarian journalist and poet (1941–2022)

Екатерина Петрова Йосифова

Born(1941-06-04)4 June 1941
Kyustendil, Kingdom of BulgariaDied13 August 2022(2022-08-13) (aged 81)Alma materUniversity of SofiaGenresPoetry, journalism

Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (Bulgarian: Екатерина Петрова Йосифова; 4 June 1941 – 13 August 2022)^[1]^[2] was a Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet.^[3]

Life

Yosifova was born in Kyustendil and studied Russian language at the University of Sofia. Yosifova was employed as a high school teacher in Kyustendil and then later as a newspaper editor.

She published Kuso putuvane ('Brief Journey') in 1969 and Noshtem ide vyatur ('The Wind Comes at Night') in 1972. Yosifova became editor-in-chief for Struma, a literary magazine.

Awards

Yosifova received the Ivan Nikolov Award [bg].^[1]

Works

1969 – Kuso patuvane ('Short Travel')
1972 – Noshtem ide vyatar (The Wind Comes at Night')
1978 – Posveshtenie ('Dedication')
1983 – Kushta v poleto ('House in the Field')
1987 – Imena ('Names')
1993 – Podozrenia ('Suspicions')
1994 – Nenuzhno povedenie ('Useless Conduct')
1998 – Malko stihotvorenia ('Few Poems')
2001 – Nishto novo (100 stihotvorenia) ('Nothing New: 100 Poems')
2004 – Nagore nadolu ('Up and Down')
2006 – Ratse ('Hands')
2010 – Tazi zmiya ('This Snake')
2014 – Tunka knizhka ('Slim Booklet')

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Works translated to English

Her work, translated into English, has appeared in the anthologies:

Windows on the Black Sea (1992)
Clay and Star (1992)
The Manyvoiced Wave: Contemporary Women Poets of Bulgaria, Translators Tsvetelina Ganeva; Richard Scorza, Samkaleen Prakashan, 1999, ISBN 9788170831532
An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1994)^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "Meet a Bulgarian Poet: Ekaterina Yosifova". Accents Publishing.
^ Отиде си поетесата Екатерина Йосифова (in Bulgarian)
^ ^a ^b ^c Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. pp. 354–55. ISBN 0415159806.