Ivan Hristov (writer)

He is also the author of the poetry collections Amerikanski poemi (American Poems, 2013), as well as of Luboven recnik (A Dictionary of Love, 2018) which received The Culture is The Refuge of Humanity award at Safi International Forum of Poetry, Morocco 2018.

In 2019, within the framework of the European project Versopolis his third poetry book American Poems was published in Paris, France and his fourth poetry collection A Dictionary of Love, in Bratislava, Slovakia.Ivan has participated in poetry festivals abroad, including Ars Poetica in Bratislava in 2007 and the Goran Spring Festival in Croatia in 2009, where he received first prize in the Poetry Marathon in Hvar.

He is also a leading literary critic of his generation with numerous academic publications; his book-length research study, The Sagittarius Circle and the Concept of the Native, won the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture's National Culture Fund competition and was published in 2010.

Since 2010, Ivan Hristov has been a member of the organizational committee for the international Sofia Poetics festival.

He currently works as a researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.