Tag Archives: Izidora Angel
She Who Translates: Stiliana Milkova Rousseva in Conversation with Translator and Writer Izidora Angel
Izidora Angel works magic with words. Her latest translation from Bulgarian, Rene Karabash’s “She Who Remains” (forthcoming from Sandorf Passage and Peirene Press in early 2026) ensnares you into a contemporary world of ancient patriarchal law and guides you through its perilous territory on an intense journey of identity (trans)formation, family commitment, and love. In this interview, Angel unravels some of the mysteries behind “She Who Remains,” discusses her choices and decisions as a translator, and hints at some of her own creative writing projects.
(In)Visibility: Nataliya Deleva’s “Four Minutes,” Translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel
It is Izidora Angel’s translation that brings Leah’s inner world to life. A Bulgarian American food writer, travel journalist, and translator, Angel renders Leah’s fantasies with the sort of precision and richness that only a writer of her caliber could accomplish.
Workshop Notes on Reviewing Nataliya Deleva’s “Four Minutes”
This post features a cluster of reviews of Nataliya Deleva’s novel “Four Minutes,” translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel. This post also reflects on the principles and practices guiding a new college course on the art and craft of the translation review essay.
A Story of Hardship and Hope: Nataliya Deleva’s “Four Minutes,” Translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel
An impressive feat of Izidora Angel’s translation from Bulgarian lies in its ability to communicate the sense and culture of a foreign place while still providing a universal, relatable message. The presence of Bulgarian culture is strong—yet it does not prevent access or hang readers up on the foreignizing details.
This review will take you four minutes to read: Nataliya Deleva’s “Four Minutes,” Translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel
It is the idea of comfort within pain that propels this novel forward. The motherless protagonist, now re-birthed in translation, emerges as an individual specially equipped to help those who need it most, and finds in her abilities a reason to keep going.
Bulgarian Women Who Run With the Wolves: An Interview with Nataliya Deleva and Izidora Angel
Nataliya Deleva’s Four Minutes is a profound, heart-breaking meditation on the notions of home and homelessness, with their myriad manifestations and implications in our contemporary world. An orphanage in post-communist Bulgaria provides the physical and psychological coordinates of the narrator’s existence and of the book’s loose narrative frame. Called simply and anonymously “the Home,” this […]
Immigrant Song: “My Brother’s Suitcase: Stories About the Road,” Translated from Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova
By Izidora Angel No matter where you go, you always carry your loneliness with you, even that unconscious black loneliness that bubbles up beneath the youthful optimism. Zoya Marincheva, “Meridians and Demons” (from My Brother’s Suitcase) That Bulgarian even exists to translate from is a kind of miracle. Despite the country’s rich history dating back […]
Translators on Books that Should be Translated: “Keder” by Yordanka Beleva
By Izidora Angel Keder, like other words in the Bulgarian language, is of Turkish origin. It means sorrow, but also grief and sadness. The story goes that the ancient Turks believed when a person dies, he bestows to his closest forty sorrows, for each of the forty days after death. With each passing day, fewer […]