Background
He was born in Gabrovo in Bulgaria in 1982, lived in Sofia for fourteen years and in 2001, at the age of 18, moved to the United States of America.
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Miroslav Penkov
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He studied for a Bachelor"s degree in psychology and an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of Arkansas.
Career
He teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, where he is a fiction editor for the American Literary Review.
Achievements
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In 2007, his short story "Buying Lenin" won The Southern Review"s Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction. In 2012, his story "East of the West" won the British Broadcasting Corporation International Short Story Award. In 2014, Penkov was selected as a protégé by mentor Michael Ondaatje as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, an international philanthropic programme that pairs masters in their disciplines with emerging talents for a year of one-to-one creative exchange.
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