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Yordan Eftimov
Yordan Efftimov at premiere of “A book about modern Bulgarians” by Veselin Metodiev, NBU Book Center, January 20, 2022
Yordan Efftimov at premiere of “A book about modern Bulgarians” by Veselin Metodiev, NBU Book Center, January 20, 2022
BornЙордан Ефтимов
January 23, 1971 (1971-01-23) (age 53)
Razgrad, Bulgaria
OccupationWriter, assistant professor at New Bulgarian University
NationalityBulgarian
Literary movementPostmodernism

Yordan Eftimov (Template:Lang-bg; born January 23, 1971, in Razgrad) is a poet, writer and literary critic based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has six poetry books awarded with national literary prizes. First of them, Metametaphysics (1993), won the National Debut Prize.[1]

He finished the National Highschool for Classical Languages and Cultures in Sofia and later graduated in Bulgarian philology from the Sofia St. Kliment Ohridki University.[2]

He is the author of many literary criticism articles in Bulgarian periodicals, among which the annual reviews of the Bulgarian Literature in the Demokrarticheski pregled (Democratic Review) magazine.[2]

He is an assistant professor in theory of literature at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. Among the subjects he teaches are BULB715 – The Bulgarian Modernism, and BULB602 – The Literature of the Balkans after the Balkan Wars and until Nowadays.[3]

Since 1993, with some intervals, he has been the editor of the independent weekly issue for culture Literaturen Vestnik (Literary Newspaper). He is also the editor of the magazines Ezik i Literatura (Language and Literature) and Sledva (Next).[3]

He is the author of the popular science book Modernism (2003). He is an active critic-observer of the paper market of Kapital newspaper (since November 2008), author and presenter of the Paper Tigers Programme on Radio France International (2001- 2005), of Studio Helikon in the programme Horizont (Horizon) on the Bulgarian National Radio (2005–2007) and of Zona za Chetene (Reading Zone) on Pro BG TV (since November 2009).[3]

National awards

  • National Award Hristo G. Danov for Literary Criticism, 2006, winner;
  • Ivan Nikolov National Award for Poetry, 2013, winner;
  • Hristo Fotev National Award for Poetry, 2014, winner.

Bibliography

Poetry

“Africa/Numbers”, first cover of the first Bulgarian edition, 1998
  • Metametaphysics (Template:Lang-bg). София: Свободно поетическо общество, 1993, 52 с.
  • Bulgarian reader (Template:Lang-bg). (в съавторство с Георги Господинов, Бойко Пенчев и Пламен Дойнов). София: Свободно поетическо общество, 1995
  • Eleven Indian Tales (Template:Lang-bg). София: Изд. ателие „Аб“, 1997, 36 с.
  • Africa / Numbers (Template:Lang-bg). Пловдив: изд. Жанет-45, 1998, 56 + 40 с. (ISBN 954-491-023-9)
  • Bulgarian Anthology (Template:Lang-bg). (в съавторство с Георги Господинов, Бойко Пенчев и Пламен Дойнов). София: Свободно поетическо общество, 1998. (ISBN 9548642808)
  • Opera nigra (Template:Lang-bg). София: Анубис, 2001. (ISBN 9544263071)
  • My wife always says (Template:Lang-bg). Пловдив: изд. Жанет-45, 2005, 96 с. (ISBN 954-491-25-09)
  • The heart is not a creator (Template:Lang-bg). София: Смол стейшънс прес, 2013, 60 с. (ISBN 978-954-384-014-4)[4]
  • Proven theories, final experiments (Template:Lang-bg). София: Смол стейшънс прес, 2018.
  • Before they wash off the blood (Template:Lang-bg). София: Лист, 2022.

Monographs

“Divine mathematics: Disturbing Heteroclicity of Bulgarian Literary Symbolism”, 2012
  • The ill-fated virtue. Essays on Tsvetan Marangozov (Template:Lang-bg). Изд. ателие „Аб“, С., 2008, 134 с. (ISBN 978-954-737-723-3)
  • The Double Bottom of the Classics: From Botev and Vazov to Yovkov and Dalchev (Template:Lang-bg). Изд. „Хермес“, Пловдив, 2010, 183 с. (ISBN 9789542608868)
  • Here lies the rabbit (Template:Lang-bg). ИК „Сиела“, С., 2010, 204 с. (ISBN 9789542808442)
  • Divine Mathematics: Bulgarian Symbolist Poetry (Template:Lang-bg). София: Просвета, 2012, 336 с. (ISBN 978-954-012-699-9)
  • Poetics of Agreement and Disagreement: Bulgarian Literature of 1950s – 1990s and Ideology (Template:Lang-bg). София: Нов български университет, 2013, 318 с. (ISBN 978-954-535-726-8)
  • Literature around zero. Fulfilled and unfulfilled projective analyzes and engaged forecasts (Template:Lang-bg). София: Просвета, 2019, 288 с. (ISBN 978-954-01-3980-7)
  • Strategies without Tactics: Quarantinscapes and other micro-essays from Linkedin and from the mind's warehouse (Template:Lang-bg). София: Смол стейшънс прес, 2021, 170 с. (ISBN 9789543841226)

References

  1. ^ "Winners by Years". Yuzhna prolet Award (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Panel of Judges 2004". Vick Prize for the Bulgarian Novel of the Year. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "The Magazines of the Avant-garde Conference". Faces of Modernism. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  4. ^ "The heart is not a creator by Yordan Eftimov". Publications. Small Stations Press. Archived from the original on 2019-10-10. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
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