"SAVA DOBROPLODNI" REGIONAL LIBRARY - SLIVEN AND "HERMES" PUBLISHING PRESENTED MIRELA IVANOVA'S BOOK "SEVEN. POEMS WITH BIOGRAPHIES"

 On November 16, 2018 Sava Dobroplodni Regional Library - Sliven and Hermes Publishing, with the media support of the site "I READ" presented the book by Mirela Ivanova "Seven. Poems with biographies".

Mirela Ivanova was born in Sofia on May 11, 1962. She graduated Bulgarian Philology at Plovdiv University "P. Hilendarski".

Her first poems she published as a student in Rodna Rech magazine (1977). Since then she has been invariably presented on the Bulgarian literary scene with poetry, prose, literary criticism, journalism, and cinematographic works. She is the author of the collection of poems: "Stone wings" (1985, 2004), "Lonely play" (1990, 2000); "Memories of Details" (1992, 2003), for which she was awarded the Poetry Prize of the Union of Bulgarian Writers; "Dismantling toys" (1995); "Eclectics" / 2002 /, awarded the National Literary Prize "Hristo G. Danov" / 2003 / and the prize of the Association of Bulgarian Writers, "Our Lives" / 2012 /, the collection of poems and stories "Slow" 2009 /, and the publications "Word by Word" and "Square Bulgaria" / 2016 / - with texts written during the years for Deutsche Welle.

Her works have been translated into all major European languages. In 2000 and 2004, the Wunderhorn Publishing House in Heidelberg published her two "German" poetic books, "Lonely Play" and "Reconciliation with the Cold". She is a winner of the Modern Poetry Prize from Eastern Europe, awarded by the media magnate Huber Bourda / Munich, 2002 /. In 2008 she was awarded the Bavarian Ministry of Culture with a one-year scholarship in the International Artists Villa Concordia in Bamberg.

M. Ivanova translates from German. She is one of the creators of the poetic society "Friday-13". She worked as a curator of the house - Museum of Ivan Vazov. From the end of 2016 she is a playwright at the Ivan Vazov National Theater. She is the wife of the writer Vladimir Zarev.

After a short pause, Mirela Ivanova surprised her fans this spring with her latest collection of poems "Seven. Poems (with) Biographies", published by Hermes Publishing House. With it she won the prize of Sofia Municipality for outstanding achievements in the field of culture in category "Literature" for 2018 and the literary prize "The Pen" (2018) for poetry.

"Seven" is a perfectly thought-out poetic book - from the very symbolic of the biblical number in the title to the epigraphs of Peyo Yavorov and Nikolay Liliev, under which the poems and the seven short poems with long titles are arranged. A book that regains the feeling of freedom, astonishes us with the depths of laconism, absorbs readers with its verbal swings and transforms them into valiant children of imagination, thinking reeds, gracious stoics.

This "unusual poetry book for the modern woman", as the author herself determines it, Mirela Ivanova presented to Sliven audience.

At the beginning of the meeting, the poetess gave a recitation of poems from the book, and then answered many questions of her fans.

The organizers of the premiere from Sava Dobroplodni Regional library surprised M. Ivanova with 7 anonymous answers to the question "Why do I like this book" of readers of the library. Here is what the patrons shared about the book "Seven":

 • “I read Mirela Ivanova's poems collection "Seven" in one breath, but this first reading was not enough for me. I reread it many times. The lyrics of Mirela Ivanova are a bunch of contradictory states, emotions and feelings that affect me very strongly; make me feel alive, real, and necessary. I make another attempt to grab the right shovel and with flashed palms to overturn all this despair. I can still plant in the loose soil something that grows upright, feeds the body and the soul ". /a woman, 56 years old, higher education /

• "I meet the poetry of Mirela Ivanova for the first time, but after reading her book, I think I know her for a long time. Pardon - she knows me. I have been wondering what the right way to tell your own life is - positive or negative. And contrary to modern theories about the optimistic attitude that changes fates, I understand that this is not the truth. My life, your life, this is actually Mirela Ivanova's life - about pain, loneliness, responsibility, tension, overwork and second-hand clothes. Against the background of the gullible female existence, somewhere between the nine shopping bags a woman's soul is screaming. It seeks understanding, support, and affection. She does not ask or answer, she just tells everyday life. And we read and just wait to find out "how far does the limit of pain go?" /a woman, 50 years old, higher education /

• "Deep, throbbing, exciting, touching the deepest corners of the soul. Searching and finding questions and answers in one. Exciting and uplifting - that is how the poetry.