{"id":3687,"date":"2018-04-23T16:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2018-04-23T16:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:50:46","slug":"bulgarian-literature-month-title-pick-and-giveaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=3687","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian Literature Month: title pick and giveaways"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I have mentioned earlier, the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative<\/a> is organizing a Bulgarian Literature Month in June, and I will be the editor of this event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the meantime, I have already commissioned quite a number of reviews and will also post one or two things myself. However, there are still a number of books that could be included, provided I find a reviewer (preferably a book blogger or someone else who is doing bookish things).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a short list of books which \u2013 if you belong to the category mentioned above \u2013 are open still for reviewing during Bulgarian Literature Month:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Classics:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ivan Vazov: Under the Yoke \u2013 the first Bulgarian novel, and until today read in school<\/strong>
\nAleko Konstantinov: Bay Ganyo \u2013 not all Bulgarian love this book, because it is satirically exposing certain elements of the Bulgarian national character (just like not all Czechs love Schwejk!)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A modern classic:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ivailo Petrov: Wolf Hunt – \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Bulgarian literature:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Virginia Zaharieva: 9 Rabbits<\/strong>
\nAlbena Stambolova: Everything Happens As It Does<\/strong>
\nAngel Igov: A Short Tale of Shame<\/strong>
\nZahary Karabashliev: 18% Gray<\/strong>
\nHristo Karastoyanov: The Same Night Awaits Us All<\/strong>
\nGeorgi Gospodinov: Natural Novel<\/strong>
\nDeyan Enev: Circus Bulgaria<\/strong>
\nAngel Wagenstein: Farewell, Shanghai<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bulgarian-born authors that write in another language:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Miroslav Penkov: East of the West <\/strong>
\nMiroslav Penkov: Stork Mountain<\/strong>
\nKapka Kassabova: Street without a Name<\/strong>
\nIlija Troyanow: Collector of the Worlds<\/strong>
\nElias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fiction by foreign authors but with a Bulgarian setting:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Will Buckingham: The Descent of the Lyre<\/strong>
\nRana Dasgupta: Solo<\/strong>
\nGarth Greenwell: What Belongs to You<\/strong>
\nElizabeth Kostova: The Shadow Land<\/strong>
\nJulian Barnes: The Porcupine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Non-fiction:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Dimana Trankova \/ Anthony Georgieff: A Guide to Jewish Bulgaria<\/strong>
\nDimana Trankova \/ Anthony Georgieff: A Guide to Communist Bulgaria<\/strong>
\nTzvetan Todorov: The Fragility of Goodness<\/strong>
\nMary C. Neuburger: Balkan Smoke<\/strong>
\nClive Leviev-Sawyer: Bulgaria: Politics and Protests in the 21st Century<\/strong>
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\nThe reviews need to be unpublished and preferably in English. Let me know if you are interested in reviewing a book on this list.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have also a few giveaways. Those will be given preferably to those who commit themselves to write a review of the above mentioned titles. If you are interested in a giveaway (it should be reviewed too for Bulgarian Literature Month), please let me know until 29 April. If several people are interested in a giveaway, I will draw lots.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The giveaways:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Milen Ruskov: Thrown Into Nature \u2013 a novel by one of Bulgaria\u2019s most acclaimed contemporary writers <\/strong>
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\nKerana Angelova: Elada Pinyo and Time \u2013 \u201cThe novel describes the myth of the person who travels through various wombs and embraces, undergoes multiple transformations due to the culture of times, yet never stops expressing the deep faith that above our earthly trials watches the law of love.\u201d<\/strong>
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\nRandall Baker: Bulgariana \u2013 diary of one of the founders of New Bulgarian University in Sofia; a fun read that gives a deep and sympathetic insight into the Bulgaria of the 21st<\/sup> Century<\/strong>
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\nNikolai Grozni: Claustrophobias \u2013 an autobiographical novel of an author that was a wunderkind pianist and a monk in an ashram in India, and a lot of other things<\/strong>
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\nIvailo Petrov: Before I was born \u2013 story collection of one of the most important post-WW II authors from Bulgaria (the book is antiquarian, but in very good condition) <\/strong>
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\nHristo Hristov: Kill the Wanderer \u2013 Hristov, an investigative journalist, describes the life and the assassination of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian author and journalist, in London. Considering the recent news about Julia Kristeva, who was exposed as a collaborator of the Bulgarian State Security, it is important to not forget what this institution did to enemies of the system.<\/strong>
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\nAnd now, let me know which book you want to review, and in which giveaway you are interested. (The winners will be informed individually and by a post here on 30 April.)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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