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KONSTANTIN ILIEV (1937 - ) |
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Nationality: Bulgarian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Tantalus Books Ltd |
Born on October 16, 1937 in Gorno Pavlikeni (Bulgaria). Graduated German Philology at Sofia's University St. Kliment of Ohrid. Specializes Theatre Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he defends his Doctorate Dissertation on the plays of Friedrich Duerrenmatt. He worked as a dramaturge in Blagoevgrad's Theatre Nikola Vaptsarov and the Drama Theatre Sofia. From 1995 he is Head Dramaturge at Bulgaria's National Theatre Ivan Vazov. Plays: Longing For Colours (1961), Without You In October (1968), The Mousy King (1968, a puppet play), Music From Shatrovets (1971), The Window (1977), Basil For Draginko (1978), Easter Wine (1979), Nirvana (1982), Odysseus Travels To Ithaca (1984), Red Wine For Goodbye (1989), Lame-Leg or Lupine Holy Mother (1994), Francesca (1999), Beethoven21 (2006). Konstantin Iliev has received a number of state drama awards, the international Herder Prize of 1996 for overall achievement, the Helikon 2003 award for new Bulgarian prose writing and the Elias Canetti Literary Prize 2005.
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Konstantin Iliev
Nirvana | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Organisations: | Gologan Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 'Contemporary Bulgarian Plays', Tantalus Books, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49066 | |||
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Genre: | Translator | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Konstantin Iliev. a radio version was broadcast in Austria and Germany | |||||
Synopsis: | Nirvana is set during the cycle of violent wars in the Balkans at the beginning of the 20th century. Based on documents and shorthand records, it recreates one tragic night in the life of Lora Karavelova and Peio Yavorov in November 1913. Yavorov was a great poet, playwright and revolutionary; Lora was a feminist and the daughter of an ex-Prime Minister. The play's harrowing portrait of their tragic relationship is played against the background of a nation in crisis. | |||||
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