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Tzveta Sofronieva is the Max Kade Writer in Residence at MIT during the spring semester 2012 and teaches 20th/21st Century German Literature. Her course is titled Words, Worlds, and the In-Between and examines the relationship between literature and science and explores the "in-between" space that is created by different languages and spheres of knowledge.


Tzveta Sofronieva is the author of eight poetry books and a short story collection, essays theatre texts. Her work includes also literary installations and the edition of several anthologies. Tzveta Sofronieva lives in Berlin and writes in Bulgarian, German and English. She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1963 and, after residences in Canada, U.S., Great Britain and other countries, has lived in Germany since 1992 while remaining a frequent traveler all over the world. She studied Physics, holds a doctorate in Cultural Studies and attended a Poetry Master Class of Joseph Brodsky. Sofronieva has published poetry, essay and stories in magazines as LIT, Akzente, Manuskripte, Kolik and others.

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Tzveta Sofronieva


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