Kiril Kadiiski was born on 16th June 1947. A poet, essayist and poetry translator, he is out of the officially imposed literary criteria; one of the founders of the Bulgarian "Self-publishing" and the first private publisher in Bulgaria. He has
translated a number of French and Russian poets, including Villon, Moliere, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarme, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Cendrars, Tyutchev,
Bunin, Block, Pasternak.
He is the most often translated poet in France, where all of his literary works have been published in nine volumes.
His books are published in Spain, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Macedonia. His poems have been translated in English, German, Italian, Polish, Slovakian,
Hungarian, Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Turkish and Finnish.
He has been awarded a number of Bulgarian and foreign prizes. (Max Jacob - 2002) A corresponding member of the Mallarme French Academy of Poetry.