Ventseslav Konstantinov
Ventseslav Konstantinov (Bulgarian: Венцеслав Константинов; 14 September 1940 – 22 April 2019) was a Bulgarian writer and aphorist. He was well-known as a translator of German and English writing. He taught the translation of German-language poetry at Sofia University from 1987. He spent 1993 to 1994 at the State University of New York at Geneseo, in the United States. He also wrote essays on many people, including Goethe, Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Stefan Zweig, Elias Canetti, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Heinrich Böll, Martin Walser and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
Konstantinov was born in Sofia. He had three daughters. He was married to academic Albena Bakratcheva. He died on 22 April 2019, at the age of 78.[1]
Ventseslav Konstantinov Media
Ventseslav Konstantinov in 2014
Bulgarian writer and translator Venceslav Konstantinov
The Great German Poets from the 12th to the 20th Century, 2012
66 Contemporary German Poets, 2018
Thomas Mann, Letters, vol. I, 1988
front cover of the book "writers on creativity" by ventseslav konstantinov, 2007
Книга с есета „Флейтата на съня“ 2010
Gobelin, Embroidered with Devil Tails
The Secret Life of the Rain
The Invisible Certain Things
References
- ↑ Hristova, Nadezhda (22 April 2019). "Почина изтъкнатият преводач Венцеслав Константинов" (in bg). Impressio. https://impressio.dir.bg/bukvi/pochina-iztaknatiyat-prevodach-ventseslav-konstantinov. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
Other websites
- Official website (in Bulgarian)