Bio note

Marco Vidal González (Sanlucar de Barameda, Spain) graduated in Slavic Philology at the University of Granada with a major in Russian, Czech and Bulgarian. He specialised in Bulgarian at the University of Veliko Tarnovo and Sofia University as an Erasmus student. He was the editor of the New Social Poetry litеrary magazine from 2020 to 2023 and is the current editor of Vallejo&Co. since 2023.

Marco was awared the Bulgarian literary award Peroto in the category Translation from Bulgarian into a foreign language and the award of the Association of Spanish-Speaking Journalists in Bulgaria, and was shortlisted for the 'II Justa Poética Alexandre Amad' competition. He has numerous publications in literary magazines, has published two collections of poetry in Bulgarian, and has translated works of more than 120 Bulgarian poets. In 2020 he creates the La Tortuga Búlgara publishing house through which he presents mainly Bulgarian contemporary poets in Spanish. From 2024 to 2027 Marco will be part of the Connecting Emerging Literary Artists - CELA programme as a prose translator from Bulgarian into Spanish.

Residency goals

During his residency stay in Sofia, Marco Vidal plans to meet with emerging Bulgarian writers and poets and make sample translations to pitch to Spanish publishers. He will also work on the translation of Dilettante by Chavdar Mutafov and edit his last translation of Yordan Slaveykov's novel The Last Step. Last but not least, he will work on the translation of his favorite contemporary Bulgarian poets.