Olga Shurbanova graduated from the Bulgarian State Conservatory, majoring in piano. She was a music editor in the newspaper "Pulse", "National Youth", "National Culture", an editor and a publishing director of "Music", an editor of "Ek" in the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad. One of our most respected music critics, she has published five books of fiction: "When Paris Was Yours" ("Narodna Mladezh", 1977), "Punish Me with Love" ("Hr. G. Danov", 1989) "Only the soul" (Publishing workshop "AB", 1999), "My Time" ("Zhanet-45", 2002), "Taste of Mozart" ("Zhanet-45", 2005). As an editor of the cultural magazine "Ek", for our compatriots abroad, O. Shurbanova is a compiler and an author of 101 published and distributed books worldwide, grown into a sort of encyclopaedia of our national history, culture and public life, and two collections "Autonomous life. Meetings with prominent Bulgarians abroad".