Stefanka Andreeva

1952

Gorni Pasarel, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria

Stefanka Andreeva has worked as a librarian, typist, and freelance contributor to newspapers and magazines. She was a teacher of Bulgarian language at a specialized secondary school for hard-of-hearing students and at the Center for Rehabilitation and Social Training (CRST). She also taught at ICHS (Institute for Foreign Students), the Training Base for Foreign Cadres in Kremikovtsi, and at 138 Secondary School “Yuri Gagarin.” After 2000, she worked as a proofreader and editor at the "Planeta-7" publishing house and the "Anti" newspaper, and she continued to publish numerous articles in local and national print and online media, blogs, and website content. Until 2020, she primarily wrote poetry, but also demonstrated her talent in prose and journalism, publishing works in the Literary World magazine as early as 2013 and 2018. She has a professional interest in children’s poetry and prose (especially short stories, historical novels, and novellas), constantly striving to develop and expand her skills and worldview. Andreeva acknowledges that her knowledge of Russian and Slavic languages has been essential to shaping and developing her writing. Stefanka began writing poetry during her school years but started publishing her works later. Her first book, Drops of Resin, was published in 2002. She gained recognition with her poetry collection Unspoken Words, for which she received the People’s Enlightener 2014 for Poetry award from the Union of Free Writers in Bulgaria (UFWB). In 2020, she published Ghostly Moon, which includes the cycles The Book of Life, Fragments -2, and Land of Proud Bulgarians, affirming her place in contemporary Bulgarian poetry. Her works have been frequently published in local and national newspapers, anthologies, collections, almanacs, magazines, and more. She regularly participates in various poetry contests and in the annual Autumn Poetry Salon since its inaugural edition in 2008, as well as in other literary events in Sofia, across Bulgaria, and abroad.

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Стефанка Андреева

also known as Stefka Andreeva

writer poet

Background

She was born on June 17, 1952, in the village of Gorni Pasarel, Sofia region (now submerged under the Iskar Reservoir).

Education

She graduated from the 12th High School in Sofia and earned a degree in Bulgarian Philology with a second major in Pedagogy from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski.”

Career

Stefanka Andreeva has worked as a librarian, typist, and freelance contributor to newspapers and magazines. She was a teacher of Bulgarian language at a specialized secondary school for hard-of-hearing students and at the Center for Rehabilitation and Social Training (CRST). She also taught at ICHS (Institute for Foreign Students), the Training Base for Foreign Cadres in Kremikovtsi, and at 138 Secondary School “Yuri Gagarin.”

After 2000, she worked as a proofreader and editor at the "Planeta-7" publishing house and the "Anti" newspaper, and she continued to publish numerous articles in local and national print and online media, blogs, and website content. Until 2020, she primarily wrote poetry, but also demonstrated her talent in prose and journalism, publishing works in the Literary World magazine as early as 2013 and 2018. She has a professional interest in children’s poetry and prose (especially short stories, historical novels, and novellas), constantly striving to develop and expand her skills and worldview. Andreeva acknowledges that her knowledge of Russian and Slavic languages has been essential to shaping and developing her writing.

Stefanka began writing poetry during her school years but started publishing her works later. Her first book, Drops of Resin, was published in 2002. She gained recognition with her poetry collection Unspoken Words, for which she received the People’s Enlightener 2014 for Poetry award from the Union of Free Writers in Bulgaria (UFWB). In 2020, she published Ghostly Moon, which includes the cycles The Book of Life, Fragments -2, and Land of Proud Bulgarians, affirming her place in contemporary Bulgarian poetry.

Her works have been frequently published in local and national newspapers, anthologies, collections, almanacs, magazines, and more. She regularly participates in various poetry contests and in the annual Autumn Poetry Salon since its inaugural edition in 2008, as well as in other literary events in Sofia, across Bulgaria, and abroad.

Achievements

2022 – Certificate for the short story Temperature from the book Autograph, awarded in the contest God’s Plague in the 20th Century – 2022 by the “Elin Pelin-1922” Community Center – Baylovo, the National Literary Museum – House Museum “Elin Pelin,” and the Association of Community Centers in Gorna Malina Municipality – 2015.

2021 – Certificate of Excellence and Contribution, 2nd National Contest Asen Razcvetnikov for Poetry and Prose With the Flame of Patriotism, Municipality of Gorna Oryahovitsa, “Napredak – 1869” Community Center, and the Asen Razcvetnikov Literary Club.

2017 – Commendation: “Stefka Andreeva is a name gaining increasing significance among contemporary writers,” Union of Free Writers in Bulgaria.

Works

Steps Away from Myself Steps Away from Myself

$Georgi Bankov \u2013 The Rebel (Komitata) Georgi Bankov \u2013 The Rebel (Komitata)$

book
- Georgi Bankov – The Rebel (Komitata)
  (Георги Банков ‒ Комитата)
  2024
- Steps Away from Myself
  (На стъпки от себе си)
  2016
- Unspoken Words
  (Неизречените думи)
  2014
- Ghostly Moon
  (Призрачна луна)
  2020

Membership

Съюз на свободните писатели в България , Bulgaria

2006 - 2021
Съюз на българските творци , Bulgaria

2021 - present

Personality

For Stefka Andreeva, writing poetry is a continuous journey toward a horizon that always moves ahead of the traveler without ever being fully reached. One can only gaze at it and strive to touch it, not realizing that this horizon is, in fact, within oneself.

Quotes from others about the person

“Stefka Andreeva is a name gaining increasing significance among contemporary writers…”

– Union of Free Writers in Bulgaria

Interests

Writers

Валери Петров/Valeri Petrov

Connections

Married, with two daughters.

References

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Born

1952

Gorni Pasarel, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
Nationality
Bulgarian

Education

12th High School in Sofia
St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University , Bulgarian Philology with a second major in Pedagogy

Awards

People’s Enlightener 2014 for Poetry, Bulgaria

2014 – “People’s Enlightener 2014 for Poetry” award for the book Unspoken Words, presented by the Union of Free Writers in Bulgaria (UFWB).

2014 – “People’s Enlightener 2014 for Poetry” award for the book Unspoken Words, presented by the Union of Free Writers in Bulgaria (UFWB).

Second prize, Etropole Literary and Musical Winter competition, Bulgaria

2022 – Second prize for the short story Witness from the book Autograph, in the prose category of the “Etropole Literary and Musical Winter” competition, organized by the Municipality of Etropole and Community Center “Todor Peev – 1891”.

2022 – Second prize for the short story Witness from the book Autograph, in the prose category of the “Etropole Literary and Musical Winter” competition, organized by the Municipality of Etropole and Community Center “Todor Peev – 1891”.

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