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Hay Festival 2019: Kapka Kassabova

Novelist and poet Kapka Kassabova talks to Stig Abell about growing up behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria.

Award winning novelist and poet Kapka Kassabova talks to Stig Abell about her childhood spent behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria, and the travels that have influenced her work ever since.

(Photo: Kapka Kassabova, Bulgarian writer, at the 2019 Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. Credit: David Levenson/Getty Images)

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