Lit in Translation

Milen Ruskov

Милен Русков

Born 1966 · Bulgaria

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Helikon 2017 · Nominee

    Чамкория

    Chamkoria

    Milen Ruskov · 51 when first published

    Novel · 402 pages · Historical, Politics

    AI-generated summary:In the 1920s, as Bulgaria is torn between two military and political blocs, a man belonging to neither is drawn by his job into some of the darkest secrets of his time.

  • No English yet

    Helikon 2011 · Nominee

    Възвишение

    Vazvishenie

    Title translated by AI:“Exaltation”

    Milen Ruskov · 45 when first published

    Novel · 407 pages · Historical, Satire

    AI-generated summary:In the age of the Bulgarian National Revival, two rebels, friends of Dimitar Obshti and half revolutionaries, half brigands, take part in the Arabakonak robbery, the start of many adventures, told in the language of the time.

  • In English

    Helikon 2008 · Nominee

    Thrown into Nature

    Захвърлен в природата · Zahvarlen v prirodata

    Milen Ruskov · 42 when first published

    Novel · 294 pages · Historical, Satire

    AI-generated summary:In sixteenth-century Seville, Doctor Nicolás Monardes declares the tobacco newly brought from the Americas a cure for everything, and with his assistant Da Silva, a rogue who tells the story, sets out to treat thirty-six diseases with it.