About the author

Zdravka Vladova-Momcheva

<p><strong>Zdravka Vladova-Momcheva writer and poetess. </strong></p>&#13; &#13; <p>Lives and works in Great Britain. Teacher of Bulgarian language, Literature and History at &#8216;Ivan Stancioff&#8217; Bulgarian Embassy School, London. Long-time contributor to BG BEN, a Bulgarian newspaper in the UK. Member of the Bulgarian Writers League in the USA and around the World.</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Awards: </strong></p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Gold medal </strong>of the &#8216;Agency of the Bulgarians abroad&#8217; for her service rendered to preserving and promoting the Bulgarian language and culture abroad.</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Honourable Distinction &#8216;Neofyt Rilsky&#8217; </strong>of the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria.</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>First Award </strong>in the international contest &#8216;Dance with words&#8217; of Palabrass Press Publishing House, Canada, for her poem &#8216;The Song of Orpheus&#8217;.</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>First Award </strong>in the literary contest<strong> </strong>&#8216;The Exquisite pen 2019&#8217; of &#8216;Salon for Bulgarian Culture and Spirituality&#8217;, Chicago, for her acrostic &#8216;Alphabetical Poem&#8217;;</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Second Award </strong>in the literary contest &#8216;The New Jovkov&#8217; of the &#8216;Bulgarian Armed Forces Women Association&#8217;, for an episode of her novel &#8216;Soldier&#8217;.</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Poetry collections: </strong></p>&#13; &#13; <p>&#8216;Transformations&#8217; (1999); &#8216;These Simple Things&#8217; (bi-lingual,2000); &#8216;A Child, a Woman, a Prophetess&#8217; (2000);&#8217;Thracian Treasure&#8217;(bi-lingual,2006); &#8216;Dedications&#8217; (2009).</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Short stories:</strong></p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>&#160;</strong>&#8216;Hello, Bulgaria!&#8217; (2012), part of the Slavonic Section of &#8216;The Library of the Congress&#8217;, Washington, USA.</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Novels: </strong></p>&#13; &#13; <p>&#8216;The Road&#8217; (2002).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>&#8216;Soldier&#8217; (2021).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Works of Zdravka Vladova-Momcheva has been published in Bulgaria, USA, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, South Korea.</p>