Evgenia Kamova
Evgenia Georgieva Kamova (Bulgarian: Евгения Георгиева Камова (1928–2008) was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, as Evgenia Georgieva Panicherska (Bulgarian: Евгения Георгиева Паничерска. She graduated from Sofia University in English Philology with second subject German Philology and post-graduate studies in Journalism. Between 1949 and 1957 she was the editor (culture) of Bulgaria Today magazine, published in English for distribution abroad.
From 1957 to 1967 she worked as a freelance journalist and translator while accompanying her husband Georgi Kamov, a Bulgarian diplomat, in his postings in Syria and Afghanistan. In 1967 she took charge of cultural relations with United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, India and other countries at the Committee for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and later at the Committee for Culture, transformed into Ministry of Culture several years after.
From 1977 to her retirement in 1986 works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was posted as cultural attaché of the Bulgarian Embassy in Vienna, Austria, and as counsellor on cultural affairs at the Bulgarian Embassy in Delhi, India. In Vienna is simultaneously Dy.Director of House “Witgenstein” – Bulgarian cultural centre, and in Delhi – Director of the Bulgarian Cultural and Information Centre.
Kamova was a member of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists and founder-member of the Union of Translators in Bulgaria. She is author of two books on Lebanon (1967) and on Afghanistan (1971) and number of articles, and translator of over ten books of British and American fiction writers, as well as, together with Dr. Vladimir Ganev, of the biographies of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
In 1991 together with Vladimir Ganev and Margarita Georcheva establish the Friends of India Club in Sofia, to which Kamova dedicated her last years. The Club’s magazine Svetilnik was her pride, she worked for it for ten years with love and devotion side by side with the distinguished Bulgarian graphic artist Yulii Minchev.