The book describes the key elements of a writing workshop: clear instructions, illustrated contemporary and classic works, innovative exercises and methods to gauge your progress.

The book is being published with the support by Ciela Publisher and it is resulting by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation’s efforts in promoting the teaching and professionalization of creative writing in Bulgaria.

Monday, March 23, Sofia City Library, Slaveikov Square, 6pm (poet Roger Craik reading new work)

Tuesday, March 24, Sofia University, English Department Resource Centre, 5th Floor, Library, 4:30pm (poet Roger Craik and translator Evgenia Pancheva reading from THOSE YEARS, which will appear in Bulgarian this month)

WHERE

Dalkey Archive Press
ph 217.244.5700
fax 217.244.9142
www.dalkeyarchive.com
University of Illinois
1805 S. Wright Street, MC-011
Champaign, IL 61820

DESCRIPTION

Beginning in the summer of 2009, Dalkey Archive Press at the University of Illinois will be offering an opportunity to young people to gain full-time experience in literary publishing by working at Dalkey Archive Press. The expectation is that, at the end of a year, fellows will be qualified for a position at either Dalkey Archive or at another literary publisher.

Translators Iglika Vassileva and Yordan Kostourkov were conferred with the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation's Dyankov Award! Due to the very high quality of the nominated translations the jurors Alexander Shourbanov, Stefan Tafrov, and Vanya Tomova took the unusual decision to award two prizes of 2000$. The winning translations are THE SEA by John Banville translated by Vassileva and THE MESSIAH OF STOCKHOLM by Cynthia Ozick translated by Kostourkov.
Iglika Vassileva is a literary translator, best known for her translations of Virginia Woolf’s works and ULYSSES by James Joyce. Yordan Kosturkov is a writer of fiction, translator and university professor of English and American literature.

We congratulate the winners on their achievements and thank all of the nominees for their continuous contribution to the art of translation!

Beginning in the fall of 2009, Dalkey Archive Press at the University of Illinois will be offering a unique opportunity for young translators working from world languages into English to gain experience in translation and publishing. This program is in response to the need to create the means for translators to take the next major step in their careers.

During the fellowship year, translators will:

• Complete their first book-length translation that will then be published by Dalkey Archive Press
• Help to edit translations from other translators and see how editors respond to issues of translation so that they will learn how best to work with editors in the future
• Work closely with translators who are submitting manuscripts to Dalkey Archive
• Identify works that Dalkey Archive should consider publishing
• Learn how to work with translators, agents, and other publishers
• Work first-hand with funding agencies to secure grants for translations and thereby establish relationships with the funders that translators need to know
• Establish contacts with editors at other publishing houses in order to have the means to submit work to them in the future
• Learn how to write reader reports and learn through experience how to write cover letters to publishers

SOZOPOL FICTION SEMINARS, May 21-24, 2008
One year after its establishment Elizabeth Kostova Foundation will organize its first annual seminar on fiction writing. After a very strong and fierce competition our international evaluation committee has selected 5 Bulgarian and 5 NES writers to take part in the first seminar. We have received 80 applications from 10 countries and we would like to thank all of them. We are please to announce that the successful candidates are:
Danielle Trussoni, U.S.
Dena Popova, BG
Eireene Nealand, U.S.
J. T. Bushnell, U.S.
Katya Atanassova, BG
Mariko Nagai, Japan/U.S.
Svetla Damyanovska, BG
Sonya NIkolova, BG
Stoil Roshkev, BG
Travis Holland, U.S.

The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and VAGABOND, Bulgaria's English Monthly are cooperating to enrich the English language with translations of contemporary Bulgarian writers. Through 2008 we are giving you the chance to read the work of a dozen young and sometimes not-so-young Bulgarian writers that the EKF considers original, refreshing and valuable. Some of them will be translated in English for the first time. The EKF has decided to make the selection of authors' work and to ensure they get first-class English translation, and we at Vagabond are only too happy to get them published in a quality magazine. Enjoy our fiction pages in 2008!

The first Translation Award of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation dedicated to the Bulgarian translator Krustan Dyankov went to Lyubomir Nikolov for his translation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, published in Bulgarian by Obsidian Publisher.
In his speech during the Award Ceremony, Lyubomir Nikolov urged the necessity of support for young Bulgarian translators and their work. He thanked the translators Krustan Dyankov and Valery Petrov, his university mentors, as well as the publisher of the winning translation.

Lyubomir Nikolov, a Bulgarian writer and literary translator, was born on January 10, 1950 in Kazanluk.

He studied engineering for two years in Tula, in the former Soviet Union, and graduated in journalism from Sofia University in 1977. Since then he has worked for Channel 1 of the Bulgarian NTV, the Central Council of the Bulgarian Trade Unions and several newspapers and magazines. In 1991, he began his career as a freelance writer and translator. Since 1988, Nikolov has translated more than 70 books from English by authors, including J. R. R. Tolkien, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, John Grisham, Frank Herbert, John Updike, and Clifford Simak. For his translation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, he received the Award of the Union of Bulgarian Translators (1991).
Nikolov is author of five science fiction novels:
The Generation Tribunal, 1978; The Mole, 1981; A Worm Under the Autumn Wind, 1986 (EUROCON’87 Award winner); Along the Wall, 1989 (SOCCON’89 Award winner); and The Tenth Righteous Man, 1999 (Readers’ Award for best SF novel of the years 1990-2000).

We congratulate Mr. Nikolov on his achievements!