Speaker
Lilia Zheleva
Lilia Zheleva has a PhD in Ukrainian Linguistics from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski", where she teaches Ukrainian Language and Translation. She is a regular member of the jury of the International Ukrainian Orthography Competition, which takes place at Jagiellonian University. Lilia is a certified Cambridge ESOL examiner. Her academic research is in the field of foreign language teaching and translatology. Lilia is also a literary translator, and has translated several works of contemporary Ukrainian literature into Bulgarian. Her published translations include poetry by Iryna Tsilyk, prose by Kateryna Kalytko and the novel "Chormet" by Markiyan Kamysh.