Zdravka Evtimova (Author and Translator), Author at Consequence Forum

Zdravka’s short stories have been published in over twenty countries. Her novel Thursday won The Best Bulgarian Novel award in 2003 from the Union of Bulgarian Writers. As well, she has been awarded: a residency by the Shanghai Writing Program in 2012, the Balkanika Award for best book of the year by an author from the Balkan countries in 2013, and her short story “Seldom” was included in the Best European Fiction 2015. She’s translated more than twenty novels by American, English, and Australian authors into Bulgarian, including the Nebula Prize-winning novel Red Mars by K.S. Robinson, Project Pope by Clifford Simac, What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt, among others. She has also translated into Bulgarian works by Salman Rushdie, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, V.S. Naipaul, John Updike, Jonathan Franzen, Raymond Carver, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and more. She lives in Pernik, Bulgaria where she works as a literary translator.

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by Zdravka Evtimova (Author and Translator) | Dec 17, 2021 | Translations

for Omari from Afghanistan You shouldn’t have done it, Janna. Happiness is a simple thing, you said. Happiness is a cool shadow and you looking at me. But we don’t have cool shadows in Trun. In summer there is no grass. The dust is knee-deep, and it is so hot your...