Kapka Kassabova (born 1973, in Bulgarian Капка Касабова) is a poet and writer of travel, history, and fiction.She grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria. After leaving Bulgaria with her family as a teenager, she lived and studied in New Zealand for a number of years before moving to Scotland.Her debut poetry collection All roads lead to the sea won a NZ Montana Book Award and her debut novel Reconnaissance won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Asia Pacific. In 2008, Kassabova published the memoir Street Without a Name which was shortlisted for the Dolmann Club Travel Book Award and which Misha Glenny in The Guardian called a "profound meditation on the depth of change triggered by the events of 1989 throughout eastern Europe". Scotland on Sunday described it as ‘A memorable piece of acutely observed writing where events are relayed with a novelist’s eye. With its sharply humorous details of close family life and the evocative and sometimes almost spiritual portrayal of an era lost and a country changed forever, this book recalls the writings of Isabel Allende.’ Wikipedia
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