I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me to the Black Sea, it was like a tourist attraction. I think it would be hard to find a Bulgarian who is not familiar with the image. I started reading about it, and I found out there are only two villages in Bulgaria were they still do it properly, where it's not for tourists, and they were both in the Strandja Mountains.
Words physically have power to bring things into existence. - Miroslav Penkov
Words physically have power to bring things into existence.
- Miroslav Penkov
I don't find English restrictive, but it brings a level of discipline to my writing that I wouldn't have in Bulgarian. My control of English, however… - Miroslav Penkov
I don't find English restrictive, but it brings a level of discipline to my writing that I wouldn't have in Bulgarian. My control of English, however…
I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me to the Black Sea, it was like a tourist attracti… - Miroslav Penkov
I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me to the Black Sea, it was like a tourist attracti…
Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who speak Italian or Spanish… - Miroslav Penkov
Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who speak Italian or Spanish…
One of the things people often say about America is that it's a such a young country, relatively, and its problem - Europeans say this - is that they… - Miroslav Penkov
One of the things people often say about America is that it's a such a young country, relatively, and its problem - Europeans say this - is that they…
I think that's the nature of the region, not even simply Eastern Europe but the Balkans. They are their own region. They are a peculiar place. They d… - Miroslav Penkov
I think that's the nature of the region, not even simply Eastern Europe but the Balkans. They are their own region. They are a peculiar place. They d…
When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose. - Miroslav Penkov
When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.
In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that… - Miroslav Penkov
In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that…
What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will do the rest of the work.… - Miroslav Penkov
What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will do the rest of the work.…
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