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A lecture by Dr Ognyan Kovachev (Sofia University) and the London premiere screening of聽"Silenced: Georgi Markov and the Umbrella Murder" (2012).聽

In the 20^th century, London gave refuge to a variety of Bulgarian immigrants - writers, intellectuals, journalists and academics. Neither before, nor after, the advent of communism in Bulgaria (1944-1946), were they of great public attention in the UK. Nevertheless, more than a few of them were able to integrate and pursue successful careers here, and thereby made considerable impact in their own sphere.

In his presentation, Dr Kovachev will focus on four case studies: the now almost completely forgotten Dikran Kouyoumdjian; Methodi Kousseff, who taught Bulgarian and defended his doctoral thesis at SSEES, and for decades was a central figure in the Bulgarian community in London; the diplomat, theatre director, filmmaker, art and literary critic, writer, academic and BBC broadcaster, Petar Uvaliev aka Pierre Rouve; and Georgi Markov, the writer and broadcaster and victim of the notorious 鈥楤ulgarian umbrella鈥� murder. The aim is not so much to showcase their success stories but to outline, to quote Uvaliev鈥檚 favourite metaphor, 鈥榯he spiritual bridges they created and maintained between Bulgaria, Great Britain and Europe鈥�.聽

The presentation will be introduced by HE Konstantin Dimitrov, the Bulgarian Ambassador in London.聽

Ognyan Kovachev is Reader in Comparative Literature and Founding Co-Director of the 鈥淐inema, Literature and Visual Culture鈥� Postgraduate Programme at the Sofia University 鈥淪t. Kliment of Ohrid鈥�. He is a member of the Association of Adaptation Studies and the Bulgarian Academic Circle of Comparative Literature.聽 He was Visiting Research Fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford in 2007 and Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 2011. His publications include The Gothic Novel: Genealogy, Genre, Aesthetics (2004), Literature and Identity (2006) and more than 80 academic articles.聽