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Kapka Kassabova

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Sofia, Bulgaria

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female

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http://www.kapka-kassabova.com/

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Kapka was born and raised in Bulgaria in the 1970s, and educated by her scientist parents, the French College in Sofia, and two New Zealand universities.

In 1990, the family moved to England, and later to New Zealand. Five years ago Kapka moved to Britain because the climate is so much better here.

She lives in sunny Edinburgh as a cultural mongrel and is working on a simplified version of her East European-Kiwi-Scots accent. Her latest poetry collections are Someone else's life and Geography for the Lost.

Her travel essays were twice recipients of the NZ Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year award, and she writes the occasional travel guide to keep her head above water and her feet on the road.

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Books by Kapka Kassabova

Average rating: 3.56 · 133 ratings · 36 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria 3.59 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Twelve minutes of love : a tango story 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Love in the Land of Midas 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Villa Pacifica 2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Someone Else's Life 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Reconnaisance 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	Geography For The Lost 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	All Roads Lead to the Sea 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Dismemberment 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	My rating:
	The Best of Delhi 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from, they ask. Does it matter, I answer.
But it does. Because how can you truly know yourself, and how can you know other place and people, if you don't even know where you come from?”
― Kapka Kassabova, Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

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“Where do nations begin? In airport lounges, of course. You see them arriving, soul by soul, in pre-activation mode. They step into no man's land, with only their passports to hold onto, and follow the signs to the departure gate. There, among the impersonal plastic chairs and despite themselves, they coalesce into the murky Rorschach stain of nationhood.”
― Kapka Kassabova, Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

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