Vasilka I. Aleksova

Vasilka I. Aleksova was born in 1953 in Sofia, Bulgaria. After completing her master’s degree in Romanian and Italian Philology at the University of Bucharest, she pursued a PhD at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is a professor at the Faculty of Slavic languages, University of Sofia, where she specialises in Balkan linguistics. Alongside authoring several academic articles and books, Aleksova translates Romanian literature into Bulgarian. She has translated works by Ion Luca Caragiale, Mircea Eliade, Gabriela Adameșteanu, Doina Ruști, Maria-Luiza Cristescu, Matei Vișniec, Răzvan Rădulescu, Ioana Nicolaie, and Tatiana Țîbuleac.