A Short Story Collection of Works of Contemporary Bulgarian Writers was Published in Persian Language
On 13 June 2020 a short story collection with the title “After the Communism”, consisting of works of contemporary Bulgarian writers, was published in Persian language. The short stories in it were compiled and translated by Farid Ghadami, who took part in a one-month residency programme for translation of “Next Page” Foundation in 2019.
The collection consists of translations of works of Zdravka Evtimova, Alek Popov, Boyan Biolchev, Velina Minkova, Todor P. Todorov, Georgi Tenev, Elka Stoyanova, Bistra Velichkova, Yanitsa Radeva, Maria Doneva, Ina Ivanova, Ivanka Mogilska, Hristos Hartomatsidis, Irina Papancheva, Emil Andreev, Petar Danchev, and Zhivka Ivanova.
The book was received with a lot of interest by the booksellers in Iran and one of the biggest chain bookstores even devoted part of the windows of some of its branches to the new book.