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Miroslav Penkov is a Bulgarian writer who writes in English and Bulgarian.[1] He was born in Gabrovo in Bulgaria in 1982, lived in Sofia for fourteen years and in 2001, at the age of 18, moved to the United States of America.[2] He studied for a bachelor's degree in psychology and an M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Arkansas.[2] He teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, where he is a fiction editor for the American Literary Review.[1]

His stories have been translated in over a dozen languages and have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, One Story, The Southern Review, The Sunday Times, The Best American Short Stories 2008 (edited by Salman Rushdie),[2] The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013.

Awards and honors

In 2007, his short story "Buying Lenin" won The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction.[1][3]

In 2012, his story "East of the West" won the BBC International Short Story Award.[2][4][5]

In 2014, Penkov was selected as a protégé by mentor Michael Ondaatje as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, an international philanthropic programme that pairs masters in their disciplines with emerging talents for a year of one-to-one creative exchange.[6]

Works

  • East of the West: A Country in Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011 (US, first edition). ISBN 0374117330
  • Stork Mountain: A Novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016 (US, first edition). ISBN 9780374222796

References

  1. 1 2 3 Damian Kelleher (April 12, 2012). "Miroslav Penkov - East of the West". Media and Culture (Australia). Archived from the original on June 11, 2012. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Flood, Alison (3 October 2012). "Miroslav Penkov wins BBC international short story award". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  3. ↑ "Buying Lenin by Miroslav Penkov". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Bulgarian Writer Finds His Voice In English". NPR Books. National Public Radio. 30 July 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  5. ↑ Griswold, Sebastian (21 October 2011). "Book Review". Mmegi Online. Dikgang Publishing Company. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  6. ↑ http://www.rolexmentorprotege.com/pairing/2014-2015/michael_ondaatje_and_miroslav_penkov
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