Чавдар Ценов
Born 1956 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2025 · Nominee
Ubiystvo na bulevard „Stamboliyski“
Title translated by AI:“Murder on Stamboliyski Boulevard”
Chavdar Tsenov · 68 when first published
Novel · 232 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:Through the portraits of its many characters and their stories, a murder on Stamboliyski Boulevard opens a picture of present-day Bulgaria, divided, uncertain and hungry for big ideas.
Helikon 2019 · Nominee
Nakade teche rekata
Title translated by AI:“Where the River Flows”
Chavdar Tsenov · 62 when first published
Novel · 245 pages
AI-generated summary:A former geography teacher who dreamed of travel but never left Bulgaria, a friend who longed for a flat and ended up on the street, and a professor with thousands of books who never wrote one: their shared failures lead the teacher to compose a speech on dreams.
Helikon 2015 · Nominee
Otklonenia naesen
Title translated by AI:“Detours in Autumn”
Chavdar Tsenov · 59 when first published
Short stories · 232 pages
AI-generated summary:Short novellas that find invisible gaps in everyday life, out of which strange, deep and melancholy worlds emerge: a slightly torn flag, a bicycle that may have been stolen, a word that seems to mean nothing.
Helikon 2013 · Nominee
Kucheta pod indigo
Title translated by AI:“Dogs Under Carbon Paper”
Chavdar Tsenov · 56 when first published
Novel · 280 pages
AI-generated summary:Tommy, a sceptical and ironic flâneur drifting through life in the south-eastern corner of Europe at the start of the twenty-first century, asks the old questions: where do we come from, what are we, where are we going?