Georgi Borissov

Georgi Borissov is the author of a number of books of poetry in Bulgarian. He graduated from the Maxim Gorky Institute for Literature in Moscow. He has worked as an editor for the literary newspaper Literaturen Front, as head of the Fiction and Documentary Prose Department at the publishing house Profizdat and as producer at the Fiction and Journalism Department of Bulgarian National Television. Co-founder of the literary magazine Fakel in 1981, Borissov has been the Editor-in-Chief since 1990. He is the founder and director of the publishing house Fakel Express. He has been the recipient of the Vladimir Bashev National Prize for Poetry, the Golden Chain Prize for Poetry and the Ivan Nikolov National Poetry Award. In 2009, he became the first recepient of the Milosh Ziapkov National Literary Award for best book.