{"id":286296,"date":"2011-07-28T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T15:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/07\/28\/contests-for-bulgarian-writers-and-translators\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:17:04","slug":"contests-for-bulgarian-writers-and-translators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/07\/28\/contests-for-bulgarian-writers-and-translators\/","title":{"rendered":"Contests for Bulgarian Writers and Translators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that last year, after a wonderful trip to Sozopol where I skinny dipped in the Black Sea, drank wine, met the most amazing writers, and heard the phrase &#8220;Kentucky Fried Chicken Happy Hour,&#8221; Open Letter launched two Bulgarian literature contests sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ekf.bg\/en\/\">Elizabeth Kostova Foundation.<\/a> The first contest sponsored a two-week fellowship here in Rochester for a Bulgarian translator, and the other led to the upcoming publication of Milen Ruskov&#8217;s amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/30#thrown\"><em>Thrown into Nature.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s time once again to announce the details and deadlines for this year&#8217;s contests . . .<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ekf.bg\/en\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=61&amp;Itemid=9\">Contemporary Bulgarian Writers Contest<\/a> Bulgarian citizens who have published at least one novel should send a 30-50 page sample translation along with a synopsis and author bio to Simona Ilieva (silieva [at] ekf.bg) by September 16th. The winning book will be published in English by Open Letter in the fall of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Translators from Bulgarian into English should apply for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ekf.bg\/en\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=62&amp;Itemid=9\">Translators Fellowship<\/a> by submitting  a 20-page sample (10-pages if it&#8217;s a short story collection) of the book they would work on during the fellowship, along with a statement of purpose and information about their project. Again, this should be submitted to Simona Ilieva (silieva [at] ekf.bg) by September 20th. <\/p>\n<p>These were fun contests to judge last year, and everything worked out amazingly well. Milen&#8217;s novel is absolutely wonderful (more info on that when it&#8217;s featured as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthisnext.org\"><em>Read This Next<\/em><\/a>), and it was a lot of fun having Zdravka Evtimova here for a few weeks while she worked on her translation of <em>Master Mille\u2019s Living Light and Other Stories<\/em> by Boyan Biolchev. Hope we get a lot of entries again this year . . . <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/30-ruskov#thrown\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/758.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that last year, after a wonderful trip to Sozopol where I skinny dipped in the Black Sea, drank wine, met the most amazing writers, and heard the phrase &#8220;Kentucky Fried Chicken Happy Hour,&#8221; Open Letter launched two Bulgarian literature contests sponsored by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation. The first contest sponsored a two-week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[25056,28126,32956],"class_list":["post-286296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bulgarian-literature","tag-contests","tag-elizabeth-kostova-foundation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343366,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286296\/revisions\/343366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}