September 29, 2020 – The Second Bulgarian Book Festival – online edition started last night with the launch of ‘Welcome Nathan!’. Elka Stoyanova, a poet, moderated the conversation, under the motto: Literature as Catharsis, with the author Irina Papancheva and Dr. Elitza Kotzeva, a professor of English and Literature at the American University of Armenia […]
Excerpt from ‘Welcome Nathan!’ published in Apofenie
July 19, 2020 – An excerpt from Irina Papancheva’s novella ‘Welcome Nathan!’, translated from Bulgarian by Elitza Kotzeva, has been published in the literary magazine Apofenie. ‘Welcome Nathan!’ went out in November 2019. The author wrote it in memory of her stillborn baby-boy Nathan. This is the beginning of the excerpt: ‘’The procedure for cleaning […]
Chapter of Brussels Naked in Iranian anthology
A chapter of Irina Papancheva’s latest completed manuscript Brussels Naked has been published in an anthology of contemporary Bulgarian writers in Persian. Farid Ghadami, an Iranian writer and translator, has made the selection and translated the pieces. The book has been recently published in Iran. Irina’s chapter, included in the book, is called The Grand […]
Chapter of Brussels Naked in The Circle 2019: A Brussels Anthology
November 6, 2019 – A chapter of Irina Papancheva’s latest manuscript Brussels Naked is included in Brussels Writers’ Circle’s second collection The Circle 2019: A Brussels Anthology. Saudade, with original title Saint-Giles after a Brussels municipality, is a narrative of a Portuguese photographer shortly after Brussels lockdown which followed the 2015 Paris attacks. Irina Papancheva […]
Irina Papancheva participated in the first Bulgarian Book Festival in Belgium
June 10, 2019: Irina Papancheva participated in the first ever Bulgarian Book Festival outside Bulgaria, organised by the Bulgarian Cultural Association in Belgium in partnership with Librebook Bookstore and Bulgarian publishing houses between 7 and 9 June. The festival was linked to May 24, the official holiday of Bulgarian education and culture and of Slavic […]
Irina Papancheva participated in a literary forum in Palestine
October 4, 2018 – Irina Papancheva participated in the second Translation Forum ‘Palestine – Civilisation & Knowledge’ with the Arabic edition of her novel Pelican Feather which took place between 30 September and 4 October in Ramallah. She has been invited to participate in the festival by her Arabic publisher Almutawssit, who is a co-organiser […]