Kapka Kassabova

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.

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 nom...
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova

Autumn 2020
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

September 2017
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...