Kapka Kassabova 
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Two poems from 'The Immigrant Cycle' angleščina

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In transit angleščina

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We Are the Tenants angleščina

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Our Names Long and Foreign angleščina

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I want to be a tourist angleščina

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It’s Always Strange to Sleep in Cities angleščina

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Writing the Travel Guide to the Country of Your Youth angleščina

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Как да построиш градината на мечтите си bolgarščina

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Kapka Kassabova 
Author

Foto © Marti Friedlander
* 26.11.1973, Sofia, Bolgarija
živi v: Beauly, Scotland, Velika Britanija

Kapka Kassabova (born in Sofia in 1973) is a Bulgarian-British writer who writes in English. In the 1990s she emigrated as a teenager with her family to New Zealand, where she published her first collection of poems and a novel. She has lived in Scotland since 2004. As well as several more books of poems she has also written novels and travel stories.
Kapka Kassabova is a critical observer of her old homeland. In her travels and writings she explores the tension between childhood memories and the current reality in the Balkans. Emigration, loss and the discovery of new places on the map of memory are the big themes of her writing. They are rooted deep in her childhood in Communist Bulgaria. Today she turns her gaze on Europe’s new borders and makes a plea for changes in the Balkan region.

 Foto © Marti Friedlander
Objave
  • All Roads Lead to the Sea

    poetry

    Auckland University Press, 1997

  • Reconnaisance

    novel

    Penguin NZ, 1999

  • Someone Else’s Life

    poetry

    Bloodaxe Books and Auckland University Press, 2003

  • Geography for the Lost

    poetry

    Bloodaxe Books und Auckland University Press, 2007

  • Street Without a Name

    memoir

    Portobello Books, 2009

  • Villa Pacifica

    Penguin NZ, 2010

  • Twelve Minutes of Love

    Portobello Books, 2011

  • Border

    A Journey to the Edge of Europe

    Granta Books, 2017

Nagrade
  • NZ Montana Books Award for Best First Book of Poetry

  • 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in South-East Asia and Pacific region

  • NZ Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year award

  • NZSA Jessie Mackay award for Best First Book of Poetry

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