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Kapka Kassabova was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria in the 1970s and 1980s. Her family emigrated to New Zealand just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and she spent her late teens and twenties in New Zealand where she studied French Literature, and published two poetry collections and the Commonwealth-Writers Prize-winner for debut fiction in Asia-Pacific, Reconnaissance.

In 2004, Kapka moved to Scotland and published Street Without a Name . It is a story of the last Communist childhood and a journey across post-communist Bulgaria. It was short-listed for the Dolman Travel Book Award.

The music memoir Twelve Minutes of Love , a tale of Argentine tango, obsession and the search for home, was short-listed for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards.

Villa Pacifica , a novel with an equatorial setting, came out at the same time.

Border: a journey to the edge of Europe is an exploration of Europe's remotest border region.

Her essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, Vogue, The Sunday Times, The Scottish Review of Books, The NZ Listener, The New Statesman, and 1843 Magazine.

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Kapka Kassabova

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Books from Kapka Kassabova

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace

Twelve minutes of love : a tango story

Villa Pacifica

Circus Bulgaria

Love in the Land of Midas

Reconnaisance

Someone else's life

Geography For The Lost

All Roads Lead to the Sea

Writing Creative Non-Fiction: Determining the Form

Le Grand Tour. Autoportrait de l'Europe par ses écrivains

Scotland After the Virus

Lisière

Am See: Reise zu meinen Vorfahren in Krieg und Frieden

Dismemberment

Territorial Rights

Una calle sin nombre: Infancia y otras desventuras búlgaras (Caja Alta)

Il lago