Plamen Antov is DSc and Professor at the Institute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications in a wide range of topics and of the following monographs: Yavorov–Botev: Modernism and Myth. The Atavistic Memory of Language (2009), The Poetry of the 1990s. Bulgarian and Postmodern (2010), Bulgarian Postmodernism 21.–19. Centuries. To the Philosophy of Bulgarian Literature (2016), as well as the literary-philosophical comparative study Animalistics of Emilian Stanev. Biopolitical and Philosophical Problems (vol. 1, 2019) and In Front of the Unattainable: Emilian Stanev and Martin Heidegger (vol. 2, 2021). His latest book is “To Chicago and Back” Beyond the Travelogue. To the Genealogy of Bai Ganyu (2021).
As а head of the research project “Literature and Geography”, he is the editor of the collections Our Americas 1: South America and Bulgarian Literature, Bulgarian Traces in Latin America (2015), Our Americas 2: USA as a Metaphor of Modernity. Bulgarian-American Reflections (20.–21. Centuries) (2017), Magical Realism (2019).
Poet and writer, author of books of poetry, short stories, fragments, plays; winner of awards for poetry and drama.