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Yordanka Beleva
Yordanka Beleva (1977) is considered one of the most noticeable female voices of contemporary Bulgarian literature. A short story writer and a poet, she has authored four poetry collections: Peignoirs and Boats (2002), Her (2012), The Missed Moment (2017), Evening News (2024), and four short story collections: The Sea Level of Love (2011), Keys (2015), Keder (2018), Hedgehogs Come out at Night (2022). She has won national awards for both poetry and prose and her short stories and poems have been translated into Arabic, English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Ukrainian and published in numerous anthologies. Beleva’s short story collection Keder, translated in English by Izidora Angel, won the National Endowment for the Art prose award in the USA at the end of 2022. Keder was published in Macedonian (Blesok, 2019), Turkish (Metis, 2024) and is currently in the works in Czech (Runa). Beleva’s poetry collection The Missed Moment was published in German by eta Verlag in 2021. Many of her short stories have been filmed and awarded at international festivals (The Man Eater’s Grandson, Family Portrait of the Black Earth and others). Beleva’s most recent short story collection Hedgehogs Come Out at Night is about to be published in Czech (Runa), Spanish (La Tortuga Búlgara) and English (The Emma Press).