Палми Ранчев
Born 1950 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2023 · Nominee
Haosat v igrata na dzhagi
Title translated by AI:“Chaos in the Game of Juggling”
Palmi Ranchev · 72 when first published
Novel · 473 pages
AI-generated summary:Characters caught in schizophrenic absurdities and existential transformations reveal why Bulgarians feel they live amid a lie that never ends and an injustice that never goes away.
Helikon 2018 · Nominee
Tazi vecher nishto ne e sluchayno
Title translated by AI:“Tonight Nothing Is by Chance”
Palmi Ranchev · 68 when first published
Short stories · 320 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories of the outsiders of a big city in a society where sadism, cynicism, greed and hunger for power, inherited from the communist dictatorship, rule and the dying old elite is hard to tell from the rising new one.
Helikon 2014 · Nominee
Boksyori i sluchayni minuvachi
Title translated by AI:“Boxers and Chance Passers-By”
Palmi Ranchev · 63 when first published
Short stories · 232 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories about men in and around the boxing ring, rough yet sentimental, clumsy yet devoted, for whom boxing turns out to be a matter of talent, technique and hard work, much like writing.