Ekaterina Yosifova

Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova
Yosifova receives the Ivan Nikolov award in 2010
Native name	Екатерина Петрова Йосифова
Born	(1941-06-04)4 June 1941 Kyustendil, Kingdom of Bulgaria
Died	13 August 2022(2022-08-13) (aged 81)
Alma mater	University of Sofia
Genres	Poetry, journalism

Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (Bulgarian: Екатерина Петрова Йосифова; 4 June 1941 – 13 August 2022)^[1][2] was a Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet.^[3]

Yosifova was born in Kyustendil and studied Russian language at the University of Sofia. Yosifova was employed as a high school teacher in Kyustendil and then later as a newspaper editor.

She published Kuso putuvane ('Brief Journey') in 1969 and Noshtem ide vyatur ('The Wind Comes at Night') in 1972. Yosifova became editor-in-chief for Struma, a literary magazine.

Yosifova received the Ivan Nikolov Award [bg].^[1]

• 1969 – Kuso patuvane ('Short Travel')
• 1972 – Noshtem ide vyatar (The Wind Comes at Night')
• 1978 – Posveshtenie ('Dedication')
• 1983 – Kushta v poleto ('House in the Field')
• 1987 – Imena ('Names')
• 1993 – Podozrenia ('Suspicions')
• 1994 – Nenuzhno povedenie ('Useless Conduct')
• 1998 – Malko stihotvorenia ('Few Poems')
• 2001 – Nishto novo (100 stihotvorenia) ('Nothing New: 100 Poems')
• 2004 – Nagore nadolu ('Up and Down')
• 2006 – Ratse ('Hands')
• 2010 – Tazi zmiya ('This Snake')
• 2014 – Tunka knizhka ('Slim Booklet')

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Her work, translated into English, has appeared in the anthologies:

• Windows on the Black Sea (1992)
• Clay and Star (1992)
• The Manyvoiced Wave: Contemporary Women Poets of Bulgaria, Translators Tsvetelina Ganeva; Richard Scorza, Samkaleen Prakashan, 1999, ISBN 9788170831532
• An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1994)^[3]

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