Languages as domiciles

Today is the European Day of Languages. The weekly magazine Kultura asks Bulgarian poet Zweta Sofronieva about her relationship to language and to linguistic diversity in Europe: "For me language isn't just one single language, but something all languages are capable of saying. What I mean is something that awakens in me the feeling that a given word exists. In fact what interests me is the still unnamed, the search for language. ... We inhabit a language, we live in it. And I love having many domiciles, and all their nooks and crannies. ... Interaction between languages keeps them alive no less than attempts to preserve their purity. Sometimes I pay more attention to the correct Bulgarian usage when I'm writing in German or English, or when I'm translating."

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