Silvia Borisova
Polish → Bulgarian
Born 6th April 1950, in Sofia. Graduate of University of Sofia (1968-1972), diploma no. IP-5-243-10 certifying completion of a course of Polish language. Philologist,…
View profile(b. 1966) – is a Serbian translator of Polish literature, a graduate of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Belgrade, and the author of “Rozmówek polsko-serbskich”. She worked as an editor at the Nolit publishing house, as a translator at the Centre for Anthropological Studies (CAS Serbia), and as a specialist at the Library of the Administration of the Republic of Serbia. She has been translating literature for thirty years and recently translation has become her sole occupation. Besides translations published in literary journals, her output includes more than 20 books by contemporary authors (Tokarczuk, Gretkowska, Rudzka, Varga, Sapkowski, Stasiuk, Jarniewicz, Dycki) and by classics (Sienkiewicz, Gombrowicz, Schulz). For her translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s Księgi Jakubowe she was nominated for the prestigious Miloš Đurić Prize in 2018.