Contributor

Ekaterina Petrova

Contributor

Ekaterina Petrova

Ekaterina Petrova is a literary translator and nonfiction writer. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship and helped edit the Exchanges Journal of Literary Translation. Currently based in Bulgaria, she teaches translation at Sofia University.

Articles by Ekaterina Petrova

Iovana, or The Birth of the Hero

By Iana Boukova

“And it was there, in the half-dark kitchen of the priest’s house, while finishing his second bowl of soup, that Damyan suddenly realized something was wrong.”

Translated from Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova

First Read—From “Come to Me”

By Bogdan Rusev

Bogdan Rusev’s Come to Me, translated by Ekaterina Petrova and out next week with Dalkey Archive Press, is a story of coming-of-age in 1990s Bulgaria in the wake of the Soviet Bloc’s collapse…

Translated by Ekaterina Petrova

Outdated Browser

Ekaterina Petrova

Ekaterina Petrova

Articles by Ekaterina Petrova

Iovana, or The Birth of the Hero

First Read—From “Come to Me”