June 9, 2022 – Irina Papancheva’s fifth novel ‘Brussels Naked’ was published in Bulgaria with publishing house Znaci and Hristo Dimitrov-Hindo as an editor. Neyko Genchev has created the evocative cover. ‘Brussels Naked’ is literary fiction. Iris, a young Bulgarian journalist, falls in love with Brussels during her traineeship at the European Parliament and decides […]
Irina Papancheva participated in the Bulgarian Book Festival in Brussels
June 7, 2022 – Irina Papancheva participated in the fourth edition of the Bulgarian Book Festival in Brussels with her latest novel Brussels Naked (publishing house Znaci, 2022). She was in a conversation with poet Theodora Lalova on 11th June at Salle Gray in Ixelles, Brussels. The discussion continued over one and a half hour […]
Irina Papancheva’s story Lost and Found selected for Brussels City of Stories 2022
May 9, 2022 – Irina Papancheva’s story Lost and Found was selected to be read at the Brussels City of Stories 2022 festival, which took place on June 4rd, and to be included in the publication. The theme this year was Connections, taking public transport as the setting and location for stories and encounters. A […]
Irina Papancheva teaches creative writing
April 1, 2022 – Irina Papancheva taught her first creative writing classes between 20 January and 31 March 2022 by invitation and in collaboration with the Bulgarian Cultural Association in Belgium. The classes consisted of weekly sessions, handouts with a reading list for each topic, prepared by the author, assignments and feedback (written feedback by […]
Brussels Naked comes out first in Persian
November 1, 2021 – Irina Papancheva’s latest manuscript Brussels Naked, which she has written in English, will come out first in Persian with the publishing house Sibesorth under the title Brussels. Saaghar Esmaeeli has translated the novel and Farid Ghadami is currently editing it. The evocative cover has been designed by Mehdi Nessiri ‘Brussels Naked’ […]
Irina Papancheva receives the big award of literary league Stop
September 19, 2021 – Irina Papancheva received the big award of the informal literary league Stop during their annual gathering on 18 September in the garden, the so-called literary vineyard in Dabrava, of the literary critic Georgi Yanev. The award is a spoon cut in the middle and resembling a writing feather. “Each and single […]