Mihaylova, Zdravka (1961–) Translations

Biography

Zdravka Mihaylova was born in 1961 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated from the Department of Journalism and Mass Media at Sofia University. First she followed a career as a journalist with the Bulgarian National Radio and the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA) with special emphasis on cultural journalism and presentation of Greek cultural heritage and literature in Bulgaria, Bulgarian-Greek relations, Balkan issues, etc. In 1994 she joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Bulgaria. After a term of service at the Bulgarian Embassy in Athens in 1995-1998 and postgraduate studies at Athens University in "European Organisation and Diplomacy," she is now permanently based at the MFA in Sofia.

She participated in the First Meeting of Balkan Writers and Translators, organized by the National Book Centre of Greece in 1998 in Alexandroupolis, and in the Second Meeting of Balkan Writers in 1999 in Athens. As a translator of Greek prose and poetry she closely cooperates with the National Book Centre of Greece, the Ministry of Culture of Greece, the International Writers' and Translators' Centre on Rhodes (IWTC), with publishing houses and literary reviews both in Bulgaria and Greece.

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