page_title: Vanya Petkova
hierarchical_section_title: Vanya Petkova
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a portrait of the late Bulgarian writer and poet Vanya Petkova (Ваня Петкова)
context_page_description: Vanya Petkova was a Bulgarian poet, novelist, short story writer, and translator.
  Also known by her pen name Hatija Sadik Skander, Petkova was born in Sofia and studied Slavic philology at Sofia University and Spanish at the Jose Marti Institute for Foreign Languages in Havana. Petkova was editor for the journal Slaveiche, for the newspaper Literaturen front and for the journal Suvremenik. She worked as a translator at the Bulgarian Embassy in Khartoum. Vania Petkova has more than 37 poetry books and 6 novels. Her poetry has been translated into 13 languages as English, Spanish, French, Russian, Greek, Armenian, Polish, Czech, Hindi, Arabic and ext.
context_section_description: Vanya Petkova (Bulgarian: Ваня Петкова; 1944 – April 2009) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist, short story writer, and translator.
  Also known by her pen name Hatija Sadik Skander, Petkova was born in Sofia and studied Slavic philology at Sofia University and Spanish at the Jose Marti Institute for Foreign Languages in Havana. Petkova was editor for the journal Slaveiche, for the newspaper Literaturen front and for the journal Suvremenik. She worked as a translator at the Bulgarian Embassy in Khartoum. Vania Petkova has more than 37 poetry books and 6 novels. Her poetry has been translated into 13 languages as English, Spanish, French, Russian, Greek, Armenian, Polish, Czech, Hindi, Arabic and ext.
caption: Young Vanya Petkova