Alexander Shurbanov

Alexander Shurbanov (Sofia, 1941) is author of many books of poems and essays. He has translated into Bulgarian Chaucer’s "The Canterbury Tales", Shakespeare’s mature tragedies, Milton’s "Paradise Lost" and "Samson Agoniste", Rabindranath Tagore’s and Dylan Thomas’s poems, etc. For over four decades Shurbanov has taught English literature at Sofia University and has published a number of literary critical books both at home and abroad. He is the winner of a number of prestigious awards as a writer, translator and scholar.