What is Ventseslav Konstantinov?
[[File:Venceslav Konstantinov-2011.jpg|thumb|Konstantinov in [[Paris]], 2011|200px]] '''Ventseslav Konstantinov''' ({{Lang-bg|Венцеслав Константинов}}; 14 September 1940 – 22 April 2019) was a [[Bulgaria]]n writer and [[Aphorism|aphorist]]. He was well-known as a [[translator]] of [[German language|German]] and [[English language|English]] [[writing]]. He taught the translation of German-language [[poetry]] at [[Sofia University]] from 1987. He spent 1993 to 1994 at the [[State University of New York]] at Geneseo, in the [[United States]]. He also wrote [[essay]]s on many people, including [[Goethe]], [[Schiller]], [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]], [[Thomas Mann]], [[Hermann Hesse]], [[Franz Kafka]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], [[Stefan Zweig]], [[Elias Canetti]], [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], [[Heinrich Böll]], [[Martin Walser]] and [[Hans Magnus Enzensberger]]. Konstantinov was born in [[Sofia]]. He had three daughters. He was married to [[academic]] [[Albena Bakratcheva]]. He died on 22 April 2019, at the age of 78.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hristova|first=Nadezhda|date=22 April 2019|title=Почина изтъкнатият преводач Венцеслав Константинов|url=https://impressio.dir.bg/bukvi/pochina-iztaknatiyat-prevodach-ventseslav-konstantinov|work=Impressio|access-date=22 April 2019|language=bg}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Wikiquote}} {{Commons category}} * {{Official website|http://darl.eu/}} {{Small|{{in lang|bg}}}} {{Bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Konstantinov, Ventseslav}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Literary critics]] [[Category:Bulgarian translators]] [[Category:Sofia University faculty]]