Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova is a writer of narrative non-fiction, poetry, and fiction. Her work explores the alchemy between places and people, geopolitical ‘peripheries’, nexus of cultural confluence and conflict, and geographies both inner and outer. Border (2017) and To The Lake (2020) explore the ancient trans-boundary human geography of the southern Balkans. Her ongoing work is set in the southern Balkans and the Highlands of Scotland, furthering the narrative journey into nature and culture, trauma and transformation. The meeting of the human and more-than-human worlds now drives her explorations.

Books include:

• Twelve Minutes of Love (Granta 2011)
• Villa Pacifica (Alma Books 2011)
• Someone else’s life (Bloodaxe/ AUP 2003)
• Geography for the Lost (Bloodaxe/ AUP 2007)
• Border: a journey to the edge of Europe (Granta/ Graywolf 2017)
• To The Lake (Granta/ Graywolf 2020
• Elixir (Jonathan Cape 2022)