Kapka Kassabova

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Kapka Kassabova is a poet and writer. Border (2017) and To the Lake (2020) explore the human geography of the southern Balkans. Border won the British Academy’s Al-Rodhan Prize, the Saltire Book of the Year, the Stanford-Dolman Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix européen du livre, and the Angelus Award.

Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova
Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2023. 400 pages. Elixir is the latest example of Kapka Kassabova’s knack for sensory and poignant nonfiction. Her previous books, Border and To the Lake, were two unforget…
Surviving and Subverting the Totalitarian State: A Tribute to Ismail Kadare

Winter 2021
Kapka Kassabova
Adam Jones from Kelowna / Wikimedia Commons As part of the ceremony honoring Kadare as the 2020 laureate—with participants logging in from dozens of countries around the world—Kadare’s nominating…
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press. 2020. 416 pages. EURASIA'S MOST TUMULTUOUS chapters are preserved in the waters of two prehistoric lakes. In 2017 Kapka Kassabova’s Border…
Border Ghosts

January 2018
Kapka Kassabova
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…
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova

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…