Kapka Kassabova Author

Kapka Kassabova is a writer of narrative non-fiction, poetry, and fiction. She grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria, was university educated in New Zealand, and since 2005 has lived in Scotland. In Border (2017) and To The Lake (2020) she explores the human geography of the southern Balkans. Border won the 2018 British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the Edward Stanford Dolman Book of the Year, the 2017 Saltire Society Book of the Year, the 2018 Highland Book Prize, and a number of European awards. To the Lake was awarded France's Best Foreign Book of Non-Fiction in 2021, and her work is translated into twenty languages. Her earlier books of non-fiction are the tango memoir Twelve Minutes of Love (2011) and the childhood memoir Street Without a Name (2008).