Translations from Bulgarian into English. The classics, largely. But also writers who have never properly crossed into English.
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A Shepherd’s Woe
This is the shortest of the ten stories in Yordan Yovkov’s “Legends of the Stara Planina” (1927), translated from the Bulgarian by Tsvetoslav Shalev. Stefan, son, Stefan Wherever you might be, call to me! — folk song One summer’s evening, old man Vulyo, a long time forest warden, and I sat under the large walnut…