Princess in the Garden: Whatever Is Shared between Dimcho Debelyanov and Ezra Pound

Angel Igov was born on July 3, 1981 in Sofia. He graduated from the 1st AEG and Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski". He specialized at the University of Roehampton, London and at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Fulbright scholarship. Scholar of the international program "Halma" (2010). Author of the novel "A Short Story about Shame" (2011), which won the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation competition for translation into English, and of two collections of short stories: "Meetings on the Road" (2002) and "K." (2006); the first won the "Southern Spring" award, and the second was nominated for the "Elias Canetti" award. Winner of the "Rashko Sugarev" competition for the short story "Everything". He was a literary observer in the TV7 program "5 on the Richter Scale", "Culture" newspaper, "Manager" magazine and Sofia Live. Nominated for the "Hristo G. Danov" award for presentation of the Bulgarian book. Hosted the show "Every Saturday" on Radio "Net". Member of the jury of the "Vik" novel competition (2007) and the "Ivan Nikolov" poetry book competition (2009). He has translated into Bulgarian novels by Paul Auster, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Angela Carter, etc., as well as "Lyrical Ballads" by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Twice nominated for the "Krastan Dyankov" translation award.