Момчил Николов
Born 1970 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2023 · Nominee
Chekmo 2
Momchil Nikolov · 52 when first published
Novel · 352 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:Having left Bulgaria behind for the open roads of the world, Yonko, known as Chekmo, sets out on new absurd but nearly true adventures of the 1990s, carrying with him only the Bulgaria he can imagine.
Helikon 2020 · Nominee
Chekmo
Momchil Nikolov · 49 when first published
Novel · 520 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:In the last years of communist Bulgaria, Yonko, nicknamed Chekmo, chooses the hard road of total freedom, a path that leads from army drudgery, currency deals and gambling to refugee camps and a not yet reunited Berlin.
Helikon 2016 · Nominee
Poslednata teritoria
Title translated by AI:“The Last Territory”
Momchil Nikolov · 46 when first published
Novel · 631 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:A man wakes up in Barcelona with no idea how he got there, not even recognising his own face, while Manolo, a psychiatrist born with deformed limbs because of thalidomide, has learned to roam the last territory: the world of dreams.
Helikon 2008 · Winner
Kraglata riba
Title translated by AI:“The Round Fish”
Momchil Nikolov · 38 when first published
Novel · 455 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:The soul of an old Chinese woman who dies in New York's Chinatown in the 1960s travels through time and people until it meets an angel, Ramiel, hunted by Marvin, a former secret agent who tells the story.