Bulgarian poetry and novels reflects the fatalism of that nations authoritarian past as well as a new optomism sparked by its recent accession to the European Union. Today, we met with Angel Igov, a journalist and arts critic, Kristin Dimitrova, a poet, and Alek Popov, one of Bulgaria's most prolific novelists as well as short story writers and playwrights.
"Alek Popov has won several literary awards including the National Radio's Pavel Veshinov Award for the best criminal short story; the Graviton Award for best science fiction; the Raško Sugarev Award for best short story; the prize Helicon for best prose book of the year, 2002; the annual prize of Clouds magazine for the English translation of “Mission London”, 2004; the National Prize for Drama “Ivan Radoev”, 2005 and most recently the Elias-Canetti Award 2007.His new novel "The Black Box" (2007) was at number one for weeks in the bestseller lists in Bulgaria. It is a satire of gold diggers in the West and the East, of the yearning for happiness shared by successful people and underdogs, and of the wrong impressions we immediately form of each other when a world divides us."Source: http://www.european-borderlands.org/festivals/iasi-2007/autoren/?L=2&a=22
Bulgaria: land of Continuity and Change
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