Vesna Goldsworthy

[4] Goldsworthy is a Professor Emeritus of the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

[5] Her books include Inventing Ruritania (1998), the memoir Chernobyl Strawberries (2005),[6] and a collection of poems The Angel of Salonika (2011).

[1]: 99–106, 47–48 [12] During the summer of 1984 she attended the Karl Marx Institute of the University of Sofia in order to research Byzantine prayers for her college dissertation and to study Bulgarian.

[13] Goldsworthy then became a faculy member at the University of East Anglia where she continues as Professor Emeritus in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing.

[18] J. M. Coetzee commenting on the Angel of Salonika, wrote that her writing was "European in sensibility, elegiac in tone, these poems mark the arrival of a welcome new voice in English poetry.

In 2010, she presented a BBC Radio 4 programme on finding one's voice in a foreign land.