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4,667 books · 44 prizes · 39 countries
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Helikon 2024 · Winner
Градинарят и смъртта · Gradinaryat i smartta
Georgi Gospodinov · 56 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A son tells the story of his father, a gardener who is now a garden, a man who carried tons of the past on his shoulders and never stopped telling it, and of their last dawn together.
Helikon 2022 · Nominee
Резерват за хора и вълци · Rezervat za hora i valtsi
Zdravka Evtimova · 63 when first published
Novel · 272 pages
AI-generated summary:In Staro Selo, a poor Bulgarian neighbourhood ruled by crime, Dimitar grows rich by keeping everyone in fear, but old Elena, a healer with something of the witch about her, will not keep quiet about what her neighbours suffer.
Helikon 2014 · Winner
Една и съща нощ · Edna i sashta nosht
Hristo Karastoyanov · 64 when first published
Novel · 292 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:A writer keeps the diary of a novel about Bulgaria in the 1920s, the poet Geo Milev and the anarchist Georgi Sheitanov, who drew Milev towards anarchism, and the night of those years merges with the present.
Helikon 2012 · Nominee
Физика на тъгата · Fizika na tagata
Georgi Gospodinov · 44 when first published
Novel · 283 pages
AI-generated summary:A boy speaks from the Minotaur's underground labyrinth, from a cellar at the end of the war, from a basement flat in the 1970s and 1980s and from an old bomb shelter tomorrow, in a novel about empathy and its fading.
Helikon 2008 · Nominee
Захвърлен в природата · Zahvarlen v prirodata
Milen Ruskov · 42 when first published
Novel · 294 pages · Historical, Satire
AI-generated summary:In sixteenth-century Seville, Doctor Nicolás Monardes declares the tobacco newly brought from the Americas a cure for everything, and with his assistant Da Silva, a rogue who tells the story, sets out to treat thirty-six diseases with it.
Helikon 2008 · Nominee
9 зайци · 9 zaytsi
Novel · 206 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Six-year-old Manda grows up on the Black Sea coast in 1960s communist Bulgaria under a harsh grandmother; decades later, a woman in her forties in Sofia, she tries to put her life back together after her marriage ends.
Helikon 2008 · Nominee
18% сиво · 18% sivo
Zachary Karabashliev · 40 when first published
Novel · 264 pages · Love, Crime
AI-generated summary:Days after the love of his life has left him, Zack, a former photographer working for a Californian drug company, crosses into Mexico to drown his grief, and after a wild night in Tijuana escapes a bloody fight in his attackers' van.