Frossina Georgieva Parashkevova, born in 1940 in Sofia, studied German Language and Literature at the St. Clement of Ohrid University in Sofia. From 1964 to 1967 she lived in Leipzig and worked as a Secretary with Modern Languages at the Karl Marx University. She then worked as a German correspondent in an export management company and as a translator at the Sofia-Press press agency. Since 1983 she has worked as a sworn translator in the company Sofia Inter. Frossina Georgieva Parashkevova’s translations have included:
Das Verschwinden des Schattens in der Sonne [The Disappearance of the Shade in the Sun] and
Bindungen [Connections] by Barbara Frischmuth,
Die Geschwister Oppermann [The Oppermanns] by Lion Feuchtwanger,
Der jugendliche Gott [The Youthful God] by Alma Johanna Koenig and
Der Meister des Jüngsten Tages [The Master of the Day of Judgement] by Leo Perutz.
