Елена Алексиева
Born 1975 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2023 · Nominee
Vulkan
Title translated by AI:“Volcano”
Elena Alexieva · 48 when first published
Novel · 539 pages
AI-generated summary:An ageing pop-art painter lost to Alzheimer's dreams of today's Bulgaria, where his Bulgarian carer Magda, her daughter, born with a rare condition, and a businessman who wants to turn cow dung into clean power cross paths.
Helikon 2019 · Nominee
Sveti valk
Title translated by AI:“Holy Wolf”
Elena Alexieva · 43 when first published
Novel · 406 pages
AI-generated summary:A nameless man just out of a madhouse, the only passenger on a night train to the sea, gets off in an open field and ends up in an illegal coal mine worked by scholars and a whole underground town.
Helikon 2012 · Nominee
Nobelistat
Title translated by AI:“The Nobel Laureate”
Elena Alexieva · 36 when first published
Novel · 396 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:A Nobel laureate for literature on a visit to Sofia vanishes from his hotel overnight, kidnappers demand a ransom, and three days later a Bulgarian writer is found dead in the laureate's clothes; Inspector Vanda Belovska takes the case.
Helikon 2009 · Nominee
Tya e tuk
Title translated by AI:“She Is Here”
Elena Alexieva · 34 when first published
Novel · 328 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:A failed photojournalist starts looking into the suicide of a young woman in the metro and slowly finds that the facts have nothing to do with the truth.
Helikon 2008 · Nominee
Ritsaryat, dyavolat, smartta
Title translated by AI:“The Knight, the Devil, Death”
Elena Alexieva · 32 when first published
Novel · 150 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A sleepless night in a chance hotel brings a middle-aged man back to a love he once gave up, and begins the last season of a man who has tried to forget he ever had desires, tied to his unstable wife.
Helikon 2006 · Winner
Chitatelska grupa 31
Title translated by AI:“Reading Group 31”
Elena Alexieva · 30 when first published
Short stories · 224 pages
AI-generated summary:A husband who does not exist, a piano nobody buys, a nightmare clumsily traded, a scruffy intellectual forgotten in a second-hand bookshop: the characters of stories held together by imagination and irony.