Людмил Тодоров
Born 1955 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2015 · Nominee
Razglobeno lyato
Title translated by AI:“A Dismantled Summer”
Ludmil Todorov · 59 when first published
Novel · 320 pages · Love, Historical
AI-generated summary:Some twenty characters search for their identity from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century, across the long stagnation before 1989 and the chaotic years after it, with love as the thread between both eras.
Helikon 2014 · Nominee
Skeptitsi
Title translated by AI:“Sceptics”
Ludmil Todorov · 58 when first published
Novella · 138 pages · Family, Love
AI-generated summary:The intimate bond between a brother and a sister over almost twenty years of their lives: their childhood and school loves, later passions, crises, failures and successes.
Helikon 2013 · Nominee
Razkazi
Title translated by AI:“Stories”
Ludmil Todorov · 57 when first published
Short stories · 262 pages
AI-generated summary:Thirty-five stories that do not look away from the human misery we refuse to see, recording the moral awkwardness of the present without accusing or forgiving anyone.
Helikon 2013 · Nominee
Shlep v pustinyata
Title translated by AI:“A Barge in the Desert”
Ludmil Todorov · 57 when first published
Novel · 154 pages
AI-generated summary:An English teacher in Ruse, who for years has timed the barges passing behind a new block of flats on the Danube, watches one disappear and never come out the other side.