Valentina Zlateva is currently in the fourth year of her Bachelor’s in Balcanistics at the Sofia University where she studies Albanian, Romanian and Greek languages. She is a graduate of the Romanian high school “Mihai Eminescu” in Sofia, where she is currently practicing her skills as a Romanian language teacher. Valentina wins the competition for poetic translation “One river apart” in 2020 and the second place for prose translation in the same competition. Her interests include literature and culturology with focus on the Balkans and Romania in particular.