Деян Енев
Born 1960 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2023 · Nominee
Sheyset razkaza
Title translated by AI:“Sixty Stories”
Deyan Enev · 63 when first published
Short stories · 256 pages
AI-generated summary:Sixty short stories about people's fates, held together by a prayer for the unneeded.
Helikon 2020 · Nominee
Lala bosa
Title translated by AI:“Lala Barefoot”
Deyan Enev · 59 when first published
Short stories · 108 pages
AI-generated summary:Very short stories, like charcoal drawings and pieces cast in bronze, about good human lives met on early winter mornings.
Helikon 2016 · Nominee
Grizli. Novi razkazi
Title translated by AI:“Grizzly: New Stories”
Deyan Enev · 55 when first published
Short stories · 120 pages
AI-generated summary:Thirty-six short stories and two prose poems, a book in which live embers still glow under the grey ash of age.
Helikon 2013 · Nominee
Vnukat na Heminguey
Title translated by AI:“Hemingway's Grandson”
Deyan Enev · 53 when first published
Short stories · 85 pages
AI-generated summary:Short stories, sad and playful by turns, that walk the reader through everyday life past a woman on a bench who may be mad, a child sick with loneliness and lovers in the corner café.
Helikon 2012 · Nominee
Balgarcheto ot Alyaska
Title translated by AI:“The Little Bulgarian from Alaska”
Deyan Enev · 51 when first published
Short stories · 139 pages
AI-generated summary:Short, stark stories of present-day Sofia about ordinary people who keep losing something as they struggle to get by, for whom the greatest success is to survive or to leave for somewhere as far away as Alaska.
Helikon 2010 · Nominee
Gradche na ime Mendosino
Title translated by AI:“A Little Town Called Mendocino”
Deyan Enev · 49 when first published
Short stories · 96 pages
AI-generated summary:Eighteen stories, among them one in which a father travelling far from home tells his daughter over the phone that their minibus is just passing a little town called Mendocino.
Helikon 2004 · Winner
Gospodi, pomiluy
Title translated by AI:“Lord, Have Mercy”
Deyan Enev · 44 when first published
Short stories · 168 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories and novellas about city outcasts, a nurse in a psychiatric hospital, a ragged boy loitering by a market café and an old monk in a half-deserted monastery, people whose meek, unlucky lives quietly plead for mercy.