site.btaBulgarian Book Festival Brings Writers and Readers Together in Brussels

A meeting with Bulgarian writer and journalist Nikolay Terziyski will take place as part of the eighth Bulgarian Book Festival, which is being held in Brussels on June 13 and 14, the Bulgarian Cultural Association in Belgium, organizer of the literary event, said on its Facebook page.

The discussion with Terziyski is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. on Friday at Rue du Vieux Marché aux Grains 5 in central Brussels.

Moderated by writers Vasil Popov and Evgeni Cherepov, the conversation will explore themes such as writing as a return to lost places and people, the homeland as memory, pain and belonging, and the stories that unite people even when they are about separation.

Popov and Cherepov are also guest authors at this year's edition of the Bulgarian Book Festival in Brussels. Popov is the author of books that bring Bulgarian folklore, fears and mythologies into the imagination of contemporary readers. Cherepov's novels focus on closeness, memory, human kindness and the need to step away from noise in order to hear oneself more clearly.

"It is through meetings like these that the festival becomes more than a series of separate events and turns into a living network of conversations, connections and shared meanings between books, authors and readers," the Bulgarian Cultural Association in Belgium said in its invitation to the event.

Terziyski is the author of the novels that explore memory, one's native place, family, love and the inner fractures of human experience.