Poetry / Paintings

Nikolaj Panajotov is a famous Bulgarian artist, born in Sofia in 1956. Graduated the Academy of Art where he has been lecturing since 1982. Due to an accident encouter of a French businessman who bought most of his art Nikolaj Panajotov found himself in a rented studio on one of the most luxurious streets of Paris.

Kiril Kadiiski (1947-2025) is a Bulgarian poet, essayist, translator, and an author of many books, including “Concerts in Heaven” (1979), “Rider Of Marble Horses” (1983), “Time of Sand” (1987), “Poems” (1995), “The Death of the White Swallow” (2001), “Green” (2002). He has translated from French the authors: Mallarme, Villon, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and from Russian: Tyutchev, Bunin, Block, Voloshin, Pasternak. Kadiiski is also the author of the only book with palindromes in the Bulgarian literature and of the poetry anthology “From Villon to Vian”.

The books authored by Kiril Kadiiski have been issued in France (nine books of poetry), Spain, Greece, Serbia, and Romania. His poems have been translated into English, German, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Turkish and Macedonian.

Kiril Kadiiski has won many prestigious awards, among which - “Ivan Franko”, Ukraine; “European Grand Prize for Poetry”, Romania; “Max Jacob”, France.