Why New Beginnings Define Us

Providing you sights of Vienna, where I escaped to from Bulgaria as a student in 1969    

I finally made it to England at the age of 68, a country I so much wanted to visit as a student at the English Language High School in Sofia,...

Back to Prague, a city which I visited with mom when I was 17, described in my book, “New Beginnings: from behind the iron curtain to America”,  as one of...

The photos you are viewing are from my grandma’s village - Rakelovci (Village of Bulgaria), which is described in my book under the chapter Early Childhood. The people you see...

I want to thank all who came and stopped by to see me today for my book signing event at the Twig bookstore in San Antonio, TX. It was so...

Antonina Duridanova is the author of a recently published book - memoir New Beginnings: From Behind the Iron Curtain to America.   After a successful career with the United States Treasury...

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