![]() His writing career has since progressed from an MFA in creative writing to a job teaching creative writing at the University of North Texas and a position as the fiction editor of the American Literary Review. ![]() ![]() Penkov was born in Bulgaria - then still very much Old Europe - in 1982 and came to the United States as a student in 2001. At which point, as an old woman in one of Miroslav Penkov’s stories says, Bulgaria came to an end. In a famous comment made in the lead-up to the Iraq war in 2003, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld took a dig at countries such as France and Germany as representing “Old Europe.” “New Europe,” we later learned, designated the (allegedly) more pro-American, post-Communist countries of Eastern Europe: new members of NATO and the European Union - countries such as Bulgaria.īulgaria entered NATO in 2004 and the EU three years later. ![]()
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