Ekaterina Yosifova

Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (Екатерина Петрова Йосифова; 4 June 1941 – 13 August 2022) was a Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet.

Life
Yosifova was born in Kyustendil and studied Russian language at the University of Sofia. Yosifova was employed as a high school teacher in Kyustendil and then later as a newspaper editor.

She published Kuso putuvane ('Brief Journey') in 1969 and Noshtem ide vyatur ('The Wind Comes at Night') in 1972. Yosifova became editor-in-chief for Struma, a literary magazine.

Awards
Yosifova received the Ivan Nikolov Award.

Works

 * 1969 – Kuso patuvane ('Short Travel')
 * 1972 – Noshtem ide vyatar (The Wind Comes at Night')
 * 1978 – Posveshtenie ('Dedication')
 * 1983 – Kushta v poleto ('House in the Field')
 * 1987 – Imena ('Names')
 * 1993 – Podozrenia ('Suspicions')
 * 1994 – Nenuzhno povedenie ('Useless Conduct')
 * 1998 – Malko stihotvorenia ('Few Poems')
 * 2001 – Nishto novo (100 stihotvorenia) ('Nothing New: 100 Poems')
 * 2004 – Nagore nadolu ('Up and Down')
 * 2006 – Ratse ('Hands')
 * 2010 – Tazi zmiya ('This Snake')
 * 2014 – Tunka knizhka ('Slim Booklet')

Works translated to English
Her work, translated into English, has appeared in the anthologies:
 * Windows on the Black Sea (1992)
 * Clay and Star (1992)
 * The Manyvoiced Wave: Contemporary Women Poets of Bulgaria, Translators Tsvetelina Ganeva; Richard Scorza, Samkaleen Prakashan, 1999, ISBN 9788170831532
 * An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1994)