Zdravka Evtimova is the winner of the Contest for Translators. Evtimova, a literary translator and author of several books of fiction will spend 3 weeks at Open Letter Books, one of the U.S. premier publishers of literature in translation, based at the University of Rochester.
Evtimova’s short stories have appeared in American journals such as Antioch Review, Massachusetts Review, the anthology "New Sudden Fiction" etc. as well as in various journals in 23 countries in the world including UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Austria, Japan, Russia, India, Denmark, Czech Republic, Poland, Argentina, Turkey, Romania, New Zeeland, Nigeria, Serbia etc.
Her candidature was approved out of 6 applications. The judge of this contest was Chad Post.

The pilot phase of this project is implemented with the kind support of the America for Bulgaria Foundation, http//www.americaforbulgaria.org.