Thrown into Nature

Translator Bio

Angela Rodel earned a B.A in Slavic languages from Yale University and an M.A. in linguistics from UCLA. In 1996, she won a Fulbright Fellowship to study Bulgarian language and culture at Sofia University. Among others, her literary translations include the play The Apocalypse Comes at 6 p.m. by Georgi Gospodinov, the novel Party Headquarters (winner of the VIK Novel of the Year) by Georgi Tenev, and selected stories from Tenev’s Holy Light, for which she was awarded a 2010 PEN Translation Fund Grant. She has also translated numerous stories, essays, poems, and movie subtitles. Angela Rodel has worked as a translator for the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, as well as several English-language magazines in Bulgaria.