Недялко Славов
Born 1952 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2018 · Nominee
Piafe
Nedyalko Slavov · 66 when first published
Novel · 184 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Kris and Zara, a man and a woman drawn together and pulled apart, try to hold on to their love in a world that grows more absurd by the day.
Helikon 2016 · Winner
Kambanata
Title translated by AI:“The Bell”
Nedyalko Slavov · 64 when first published
Novel · 208 pages
AI-generated summary:In a dying Bulgarian village of a few old people abandoned by the state, Veno, an ex-convict nicknamed Samurai, takes it upon himself to protect his helpless neighbours and to ring the alarm bell.
Helikon 2015 · Winner
432 hertsa
Title translated by AI:“432 Hertz”
Nedyalko Slavov · 63 when first published
Novel · 176 pages
AI-generated summary:Starting from the myth around Goebbels's 1939 order to tune the note A to 440 rather than 432 hertz, the novel follows a young, gifted musician who composes an immortal work in a single night, setting off a battle between good and evil.
Helikon 2014 · Nominee
Portret na poeta kato mlad
Title translated by AI:“Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man”
Nedyalko Slavov · 61 when first published
Novel · 160 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:At exactly midnight a young poet finishes his poem and declares his beloved Thea dead to him, in a novel that returns to an era when the refined was considered harmful and the spiritual was forced into a foreign mould.