What do the foreigners think of us? What have we become famous for all over the world? Whether they treat us as the country of roses, people with heroic history, the homeland of Orpheus, technical nation or paradise? No, not for the time being.
"Etherial Songs and Secret Services" explores the image of Bulgaria, Bulgarians and Bulgarian pages in the British, American and Anglo-Canadian media during the last decade of socialism and first decade of democracy (1980-2000). The author considers the coincidences or discrepancies between our idea of our presence abroad and the results of this presence.
Ivan Vazov wrote that "we have given something to the world too" but do we really know what we have given?
Bulgarian writer and poet Kristin Dimitrova was born in 1963 in Sofia. Graduated in English and American Studies from the Sofia University, she now works as an assistant professor at the Department of Foreign Languages. In the period 2004-2006 she was an editor of Art Trud, the weekly supplement for arts and culture of the Trud Daily. Between Sept. 2007 and Jan. 2008 she was a columnist for the Klasa Daily.
In 2008 she was awarded Hristo G. Danov, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and Municipality of Plovdiv Award (fiction category), for Sabazius.
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