Although she was born in Sofia, Kapka Kassabova’s literary language is English, since she emigrated with her family to New Zealand as a teenager, and in 2005 she settled in Scotland, where she currently lives. Her work explores geographical and human borders, collective memory, the wounds of the past, and the relationship between landscape and identity. Her first book translated into Catalan, Border, is a personal journey through Eastern Europe, specifically the border between Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey, where she reflects on how political boundaries impacts people’s lives. Among other books, her literary career includes Street Without A Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria (Granta, 2009), a personal memoir that is also a collective portrait of communist and post-communist Bulgaria. She is also the author of three collections of poetry and has published numerous articles on travel and literary criticism for media outlets such as The Guardian and Vogue.

Critics have widely recognized her non-fiction work, including with an award from the British Academy (Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding) in 2018 and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award (USA).

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