{"id":21174,"date":"2000-06-29T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2000-06-29T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/?p=21174"},"modified":"2025-03-10T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:06:32","slug":"presentation-of-both-collections-of-poems-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/presentation-of-both-collections-of-poems-in-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation of both collections of poems in Bulgaria."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I presented both collections of poems, \u2018Moon in Love\u2019 and \u2018Moon Friend\u2019, at an intimate event at the Ivan Vasov Theatre in Sofia (Bulgaria) on 29 June 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can access the video of the presentation of both poemaries, carried out in Spanish-Castilian and Bulgarian: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i9Gwm30ol68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/i9Gwm30ol68<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From the beginning to minute 3 is the initial presentation with the owner of the M\u00edsel publishing house, Kristo Slavov; and here I thank the Ivan Vasov theatre for hosting the presentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20181 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kristo-Slavov-y-Mon-opt-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kristo-Slavov-y-Mon-opt-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kristo-Slavov-y-Mon-opt-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kristo-Slavov-y-Mon-opt-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kristo-Slavov-y-Mon-opt-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kristo-Slavov-y-Mon-opt-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From minute 3 to minute 19 is the reading of poems, first in Bulgarian, by the Bulgarian actress Vania Vencheva, and then in Spanish by me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20214 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Vencheva-y-Mon-opt-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Vencheva-y-Mon-opt-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Vencheva-y-Mon-opt-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Vencheva-y-Mon-opt-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Vencheva-y-Mon-opt-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Vencheva-y-Mon-opt-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From minute 19 to minute 22 the Bulgarian singer-songwriter Kostadin Georgiev, Kotzeto, Kalki, put music to the Bulgarian version of my poem \u2018Flame in Astral\u2019, a poem found on page 78 of \u2018Moon in Love\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20170 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kotzeto-Kalki-opt-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kotzeto-Kalki-opt-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kotzeto-Kalki-opt-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kotzeto-Kalki-opt-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kotzeto-Kalki-opt-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kotzeto-Kalki-opt-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From the 22nd minute to the end, the Bulgarian singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanya_Kostova\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vania Kostova<\/a> honoured me by performing, in Rhodope dialect, a song dedicated to the moon, a song originating from the mountainous area of the Bulgarian Rhodopes. In my opinion, Vanya had the most wonderful voice I have ever heard, and I say had, because, unfortunately, she passed away in 2021:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20203 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Kostova-opt-145x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Kostova-opt-145x300.jpg 145w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Kostova-opt-493x1024.jpg 493w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Kostova-opt-768x1594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Kostova-opt-740x1536.jpg 740w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Kostova-opt-987x2048.jpg 987w, https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Vania-Kostova-opt-scaled.jpg 1233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In connection with the collections of poems I was interviewed twice in Bulgarian on Bulgarian television:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 4\/07\/2000 on Channel 2001: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9t-qW8uhleY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/9t-qW8uhleY<\/a><\/li>\n<li>On 27\/07\/2000 on Nova TV: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/isIF71xGKtM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/isIF71xGKtM<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 29 June 2000 we presented both collections of poems at the Ivan Vasov Theatre in Sofia (Bulgaria).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monpoetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}