Hellen Kooijman Translates Bulgarian Authors into Dutch

Culture 20 May 2024 14:35

Hellen Kooijman translates Bulgarian authors and books into Dutch. Thanks to her the Dutch audience can enjoy Georgi Gospodinov's Timeshelter and The Physics of Sorrow, Alek Popov's stories, a guide to Sofia and a collection of Bulgarian culinary recipes, CE Report quotes BTA

After graduating in history of Eastern Europe and Russia in the 1990s, Hellen Kooijman went to Moscow for six months, where she got to know Bulgarians. "Why shouldn't I learn Bulgarian, nobody knows the language in the Netherlands?" she told herself. She went to Sofia, where she met her husband who is half Bulgarian and half German.

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Hellen Kooijman Translates Bulgarian Authors into Dutch

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