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Hay Festival 2019: Kapka Kassabova

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service OnlineLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service East Asia

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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) Show less

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