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Dimitar Shumnaliev

Димитър Шумналиев

Born 1947 · Bulgaria

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Helikon 2019 · Nominee

    Компарсита

    Komparsita

    Dimitar Shumnaliev · 72 when first published

    Novel · 376 pages · Historical, Politics, Love

    AI-generated summary:During the Second World War, orphans grow up in the care of the beautiful Miss Monika on her estate; in the 1950s she and the girl her favourite, Vit, loves are sent to a women's labour camp, where Vit works as a doctor.

  • No English yet

    Helikon 2008 · Nominee

    Соцроман

    Sotsroman

    Title translated by AI:“Socialist Novel”

    Dimitar Shumnaliev · 60 when first published

    Novel · 409 pages

    AI-generated summary:People whose youth passed under socialism are haunted by their memories of it and by the information they carry, and wonder whether they are to blame for being born into a system that made them its heroes.