CANCELLED! Presentation of the long-awaited new novel by Teodora Dimova – “THE DEFEATED”

Dear friends,

We would like to inform you that due to the rules and restrictions introduced in the UK about the gathering of more people in one place indoors and the 14 days quarantine for arrivals from Bulgaria, the presentation of the long-awaited new novel by the famous Bulgarian writer and playwright Teodora Dimova “THE DEFEATED” on November 05, 2020, from 19.00, in the “Sofia” Gallery, is cancelled.

Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation.

Kind regards,

BCI London Team  

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Free registration for the event HERE

Bulgarian Cultural Institute London is happy to invite you to the presentation of the long-awaited new novel by the famous Bulgarian writer and playwright Teodora Dimova “THE DEFEATED” on December 05, 2020, from 19:00, at the “Sofia” Gallery.

SUMMARY

The “Defeated” by Teodora Dimova takes us back to one of the dark periods in Bulgarian history – immediately after the events of September 9, 1944, when many were defeated by the totalitarian regime established by the Soviet occupation after the coup.

February 1, 2016 was a frosty day.

I was at the memorial in front of the monument to the victims of communism in the garden of the National Palace of Culture. We couldn’t stay in one place for long, our breath came out like steam. In front of the monument were about two hundred people wrapped in scarves. I had frozen myself.

There were no government officials.

It was like a private memorial service. It was as if the victims had nothing to do with our country. It seems that we have become more comfortable living without memory. I felt heavy on the icy, crystal clear February morning.

– Excerpt from the afterword in the book “The Defeated”.

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Teodora Dimova was born in 1960 in Sofia in the family of the great Bulgarian writer Dimitar Dimov. She graduated with English Philology from the Sofia University “Kl. Ohridski ”and specialization in the Royal Court Theater in London. She works as an editor in the Radio Theater of the Bulgarian National Radio.

Teodora Dimova is among the most famous and widely read Bulgarian writers. She is the author of 9 plays, among which are “Skinless”, “Snake’s Milk”, “The Bitch”, “Lovers”, “The Innocents”, etc., played in various theaters in the country and abroad.

Her novels “Emine”, “Mothers”, “Adriana” and “Marma, Mariam” have been published in recent years.

In 2006, “Mothers” won the Eastern Austria Literature Prize of Bank Austria and KulturKontakt. The book has 11 editions in Bulgaria and is published in 9 languages, including German, French, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Slovenian and others. “Adriana” has been translated in France and the Czech Republic.

In 2010, Marma, Mariam won the Hr. G. Danov for Bulgarian fiction. Her novel The Train to Emmaus (2013) won the Culture Portal’s 2014 prose award. Her latest book, The First Birthday, was published by Ciela in late 2016.