Elena Vladova is a Varna-based award-winning journalist, translator (French, English) and writer. A certified Montessori teacher and comic art trainer, she organizes creative writing, foreign languages teaching and comic art workshops for children, teens and adults, alone and in collaboration with visual artists. In 2022 she completed a Distance-learning course “Auteur de bande dessinée“, Centre de formation à distance, part of Ondernemersschool, Netherlands, the next year the courses “Dyslang (Dyslexia and Additional Academic Language Learning)” by the British Dyslexia Association and “Dyslexia and foreign language teaching” by the Lancaster University. She writes books for children and adults, among them: “Stories of Ivanka Ivanova” (3 books, one bilingual in Bulgarian and French), “The Man that was sighing” (fairy tales), “Stories from the Bellybutton of the world”, “The dragonfly and the bracelet” (fairy tale, trilingual in Bulgarian, French and English), “The ordinary adventures of Mr. Amigov who leaves near the sea coast”. She has written plays for puppets and translated comics. Translator of  the plays „L’éloge de la folie” de Jean-Marc Chotteau (bilingual in Bulgarian and French) and „Les déserts lieux” de Emmanuelle Cordoliani (bilingual in Bulgarian and French). In collaboration with different artists she realized several comics about Ivanka Ivanova based on the short stories. Together with Nikolay Roussev she realized the documentary comics “The Early Christian Monastery in Djanavara Locality near Varna”, “The secret of Cotys I” and “The Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis”.

Editor of the web magazine Urban magazine (www.urban-mag.com).

Comic art workshops page - www.comics-varna.com (in Bulgarian)

In this page you will find information about all the published books and comics in Bulgarian, French and English.