Христо Карастоянов
Born 1950 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2021 · Nominee
T kato Tashkent
Title translated by AI:“T for Tashkent”
Hristo Karastoyanov · 71 when first published
Novel · 248 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:In the early 1950s a Bulgarian journalist, under the protection of State Security, is let into top-secret archives on events in 1920s Bulgaria, and the documents lead him to unexpected encounters with figures of the past.
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 · Winner
Imeto
Title translated by AI:“The Name”
Hristo Karastoyanov · 62 when first published
Novel · 216 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Inspired by the tale that Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last Russian emperor, survived the shooting in Yekaterinburg and lived in Bulgaria, the novel imagines one possible life.
Helikon 2010 · Nominee
Payakat
Title translated by AI:“The Spider”
Hristo Karastoyanov · 60 when first published
Novel · 204 pages
AI-generated summary:In a sleepy provincial Bulgarian town of the transition years, a lonely man whom nobody notices, a reader who never writes, starts handing out what he sees as retribution, while the town's online gossips argue over a brutal murder.
Helikon 2008 · Nominee
Saprotiva.NET
Title translated by AI:“Resistance.NET”
Hristo Karastoyanov · 58 when first published
Novel · 244 pages
AI-generated summary:In a provincial madhouse whose patients include Elvis Presley, an ageing Charlie Chaplin and a hapless Hitler, bureaucrats plan to declare everyone cured and close the place for a property deal, and the patients resist.