…er a year ago, Steven Wingate reviewed Bulgarian-American writers Miroslav Penkov’s debut collection, East of the West. The eponymous story from that collection just won the BBC Short Story Award, the first time the £15,000 prize was opened up to international submissions – in honor of the London Olympics. Congrats Miroslav! This has me thinking about the importance of prize money to the writing community, a conversation I was having at a playgrou…
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…been written largely by men. Having covered quite a bit of it here at FWR (Miroslav Penkov, Zachary Karabashliev, Angel Igov, Vladislav Todorov), as well as in Rain Taxi (Milen Ruskov) and American Book Review (Georgi Gospodinov), I’ve been waiting for more female voices to join this chorus. For while there is no shortage of contemporary Bulgarian writers who pen fiction and who also happen to be women (Svetla Damyanovska, Kristin Dimitrova, Theod…
…n (a competition that yours truly entered more than once). The 2012 judge, Miroslav Penkov, writes that Lieberman “inhabits her characters, young or old, men or women, honestly, but without judgment, until they rise off the page and stand before us breathing and alive. New York, the Atacama desert, Amsterdam or Cuzco in Peru, the settings in Venus in the Afternoon are just as varied as the lives which they contain. A wonderful collection, one that…
