Mirela Ivanova (born 11 May 1962 in Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

) is one of the most famous modern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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n poets. Her poems have been translated into many different languages, including German and English.

She studied at a German language

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 school in Sofia and graduated in Bulgarian and Russian Philology at the Plovdiv University

Plovdiv University

The Plovdiv University "Paisiy Hilendarski" is a university located in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was founded in 1962 and has nine faculties.- History and Profile :...

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Mirela Ivanova writes essay

Essay

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s, review

Review

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s on fiction and theatre performances, deals with literature history, and translates from the German language. She is an author of scenarios for documentary films. In 1994 she translated and published an anthology of modern German poetry, titled The Wandering of Stones. She has also translated German works of Sarah Kirsch

Sarah Kirsch

Sarah Kirsch is a German poet.She was born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony. She changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's anti-semitism. She studied biology in Halle and literature at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature in Leipzig. In...

, Elke Erb, Gregor Laschen, Ernest Wicher, Durs Grünbein

Durs Grünbein

Durs Grünbein is a German poet, living in Berlin since 1985.Grünbein is hailed as the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, and his work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, which he won in 1995...

, Uwe Kolbe, as well as Ernst Gombrich

Ernst Gombrich

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's popular work History of Mankind for Young Readers. Ivanova's poems have been translated into various languages.