Ivan Hristov
Illustration — Ivan Hristov Ivan Hristov or Ivan Christoff (born February, 1978 in Borovo, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian poet, and critic. His first book of poetry, Sbogom devetnajsti vek (Farewell to the 19th century), was published in 2001 and won the prestigious 2002 Southern Spring award for the best debut book. His second book of poetry, Bdin, was published in 2004 and received critical acclaim, as well as the 2006 Svetlostruj Prize for poetry.
Ivan Hristov
- Born
- 1978
- Nationality
- Russia
- Occupation
- writer · poet · musician · literary scholar · literary critic
- Fields
- literary studies · literary criticism · poetry
- Education
- Sofia University · Aprilov National High School
- Languages
- Russian · Bulgarian
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Works have been translated into a dozen of languages. In 2015, Bdin was published in Turkish. The next year Bdin followed by American Poems came out in Romania. He has participated in the following festivals also: Dasein in Athens, Greece (2010), Sha’ar International Poetry Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, (2010), The National Festival for Poetic Books, Bucharest, Romania (2011), The Belgrade Festival of Poetry and Books, Belgrade, Serbia (2011), Mediterranean Voices Festival, Lodève, France (2011), Prague Book Fair (2012) among others. He is also a leading literary critic of his generation with numerous academic publications; his book-length research study, The Sagittarius Circle and the Concept of the Native, won the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture's National Culture Fund competition and was published in 2010. Since 2010, Ivan Hristov has been a member of the organizational committee for the international Sofia Poetics festival. He currently works as a researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
• National Prize for the best poetic debut Southern Spring 2002 for FAREWELL, NINETEENTH CENTURY • National literary prize Svetlostruy 2006 for BDIN • First prize in the Poetry Marathon at Goran Spring Festival in Croatia 2009 • The Culture is The Refuge of Humanity award at Safi International Forum of Poetry, Morocco 2018
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