Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova (born in November 1973, in Bulgarian Капка Касабова) is a poet and writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. She is a bilingual writer in English, which is her main literary language, and. Kapka Kassabova is a poet and writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and, with the thawing of the Cold War, emigrated with her family, first to Britain, then to. Kapka Kassabova is a prizewinning writer of narrative non-fiction. Her recent Balkan quartet includes Anima (2024), Elixir (2023), To the Lake (2020) and Border (2017). Kapka Kassabova is a travel writer, poet and novelist. Her childhood memoir Street Without a Name (Portobello, 2008) was shortlisted for the Prix du Livre Européen and the Dolman travel-book award. Apr 26, 2025 · Smaranda Șchiopu Kapka Kassabova has spent the past decade deeply involved in exploring the Balkans, particularly her native country, Bulgaria, and the less visible lives of plants,.

Kapka grew up in Sofia and as a young adult emigrated to New Zealand where she studied French and Russian Literature and published her first books. Since 2005 she has lived in Scotland. Welcome to the website of Kapka Kassabova recent : Anima shortlisted for the Sherborne Prize Interview with El Diario Catalunya (in Spanish) Borrowed Land, a Highland story is published 9 April. Jun 24, 2025 · Kapka Kassabova is a multigenre writer of narrative non-fiction, poetry, and fiction. Border, the first book in her Balkan quartet, won a British Academy Prize, the Scottish Book of the.