"Kiril Kadiiski does not say, like Descartes, "no one before me", on the contrary, he knows, like Pascal, that the meaning is rather a reverie, which persistence would approve. Hence the repetition, the formal aspiration, the frame of the sonnet, which strangely winged the rebellion, like a muted joy, like that ephemerality of dreams, like the crunch of foliage under footsteps in the forest.
This Greco-Slavic voice, which knows how to connect the Balkans with Mediterranean Europe through its radiant culture and fiery poetry, resonates strongly, inspires and conquers the listener, as his compatriot - the great bass Boris Hristov did at the time: strength in the disturbing, excellence in the heartbreaking.
Not only a strong Bulgarian poetic voice, but also a voice whose echo lives on even beyond the borders."
Thierry de La Croix, "Son of Thrace"
Kiril Kadiiski (1947) 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.
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