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Joanna Elmy (BG)

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Kieran van Overwaele

Kieran van Overwaele (BE)

Joanna Elmy's werk wordt uit het Bulgaars naar het Nederlands vertaald door Kieran Van Overwaele.

05 November 2025

Joanna Elmy is a Bulgarian-born writer and journalist, named one of Bulgaria’s most prominent young literary voices. Her debut novel, Born of Guilt, received the most prestigious Bulgarian prize for emerging literature in 2022 and was shortlisted for several other national awards. It is being translated into over fifteen languages.

She is a columnist in Deutsche Welle and works for the independent weekly Toest, and her literary criticism and essays have appeared in The Literary Journal, VIJ Magazine and Capital Weekly, among others.

She lives between the United States and her native Bulgaria, where she is the founder of a project aiming to modernize the Bulgarian literary canon and to improve access to literature and literary knowledge.

Hellen Kooijmans translation of Joanna’s debut, in Dutch Schuldig geboren, will be published this year at De Bezige Bij. During the festival, her work will be translated by Kieran Van Overwaele.

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