Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova, Bulgarian Капка Касабова (* 1973 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian writer, poet and travel writer. After she left her native country as a teenager, she lived some years in England and New Zealand. Currently she lives in Edinburgh ( Scotland).

In 2008 published Kassabova Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria ( German: Street with no name: Childhood and Other Confusions in Bulgaria). The British newspaper The Guardian described the book as " meditation on the profound changes that took place in Eastern Europe in the wake of the events of 1989 ."

Publications

  • All Roads Lead to the Sea. Auckland University Press, 1997, ISBN 1-86940-177-8.
  • Dismemberment. Auckland University Press, 1999, ISBN 1-86940-207-3.
  • Reconnaissance. Penguin Group, 1999, ISBN 0-14-028343-9.
  • Love in the Land of Midas. Penguin Books, 2001, ISBN 0-14-100012-0.
  • Someone Else's Life. Bloodaxe, 2003, ISBN 1-85224-617-0.
  • Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria. Porto Bello, 2008, ISBN 978-1-8462-7123-6.
  • Villa Pacifica. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-8468-8151-0.
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