Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova is a writer of journeys. Her narrative nonfiction books are Street Without a Name, Twelve Minutes of Love, and Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Graywolf), which has been shortlisted in the UK for the Baillie-Gifford Prize and is Winner of the Saltire Society 2017 Scottish Book of the Year. Kassabova lives in the Highlands of Scotland.

January 2018

Border Ghosts

Border village in winter, Turkey. Photo: Nedret Benzet Returning to the Bulgaria of her childhood, the author chronicles the insidious damage that a culture of hard borders inflicted on its sur...
September 2017

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova

Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2017. 400 pages. In the late 2000s, Kapka Kassabova undertook a trek along the southern border of her birthplace, Bulgaria. Through her journey, the author sought to exami...