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Bistra Velichkova was born in 1986 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She received a joint MSc degree in European Studies from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and the Westfälische Wilhelms-University of Münster, Germany (2011). She obtained her BA degree...

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In June of 1923, a military coup established Aleksandar Tsankov as the new leader of Bulgaria. His fascist policies—especially aimed at the Bulgarian Communist Party—led to the failed September Uprising and an extended period of martial law....

Izidora Angel is a Bulgarian-born writer, translator and curator. She has written essays and critique in English and Bulgarian for the Chicago Reader, Publishing Perspectives, Drunken Boat (Anomaly), Banitza, Egoist, and others. She has edited works...

The ghosts of history are still too viable and are exploited unscrupulously by populist charlatans for manipulating people and their emotions.
Writer Alek Popov in conversation with Montenegrin journalist Vujica Ognienovic about his latest novel The Palaveevi Sisters: in the Storm of History. Critic defined it as the first partisan novel written after the fall of communism in Bulgaria. The...