Yordan Eftimov


Yordan Eftimov is a poet, writer and literary critic based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has eight poetry books awarded with national literary prizes. First of them, Metametaphysics, won the National Debut Prize.
He finished the National Highschool for Classical Languages and Cultures in Sofia and later graduated in Bulgarian philology from the Sofia St. Kliment Ohridki University.
He is the author of many literary criticism articles in Bulgarian periodicals, among which the annual reviews of the Bulgarian Literature in the Demokrarticheski pregled magazine.
He is an Associate professor in theory of literature at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. Among the subjects he teaches are BULB715 – The Bulgarian Modernism, and BULB602 – The Literature of the Balkans after the Balkan Wars and until Nowadays.
Since 1993, with some intervals, he has been the editor of the independent weekly issue for culture Literaturen Vestnik. He is also the editor of the magazines Ezik i Literatura and Sledva.
He is the author of the popular science book Modernism. He is an active critic-observer of the paper market of Kapital newspaper, author and presenter of the Paper Tigers Programme on Radio France International, of Studio Helikon in the programme Horizont on the Bulgarian National Radio and of Zona za Chetene on Pro BG TV.
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National awards

National Award Hristo G. Danov for Literary Criticism, 2006, winner;Ivan Nikolov National Award for Poetry, 2013, winner;Hristo Fotev National Award for Poetry, 2014, winner.

Poetry

  • Metametaphysics. София: Свободно поетическо общество, 1993, 52 с.
  • Bulgarian reader.. София: Свободно поетическо общество, 1995
  • Eleven Indian Tales. София: Изд. ателие „Аб“, 1997, 36 с.
  • Africa / Numbers. Пловдив: изд. Жанет-45, 1998, 56 + 40 с.
  • Bulgarian Anthology.. София: Свободно поетическо общество, 1998.
  • Opera nigra. София: Анубис, 2001.
  • My wife always says. Пловдив: изд. Жанет-45, 2005, 96 с.
  • The heart is not a creator. София: Смол стейшънс прес, 2013, 60 с.
  • Proven theories, final experiments. София: Смол стейшънс прес, 2018.
  • Before they wash off the blood. София: Лист, 2022.

Monographs

  • The ill-fated virtue. Essays on Tsvetan Marangozov. Изд. ателие „Аб“, С., 2008, 134 с.
  • The Double Bottom of the Classics: From Botev and Vazov to Yovkov and Dalchev. Изд. „Хермес“, Пловдив, 2010, 183 с.
  • Here lies the rabbit. ИК „Сиела“, С., 2010, 204 с.
  • Divine Mathematics: Bulgarian Symbolist Poetry. София: Просвета, 2012, 336 с.
  • Poetics of Agreement and Disagreement: Bulgarian Literature of 1950s – 1990s and Ideology. София: Нов български университет, 2013, 318 с.
  • Literature around zero. Fulfilled and unfulfilled projective analyzes and engaged forecasts. София: Просвета, 2019, 288 с. Strategies without Tactics: Quarantinscapes and other micro-essays from Linkedin and from the mind's warehouse. София: Смол стейшънс прес, 2021, 170 с.