Радослав Парушев
Born 1975 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2017 · Nominee
Samo za napusheni
Title translated by AI:“Only for the Stoned”
Radoslav Parushev · 42 when first published
Short stories · 136 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Twenty-one short stories written mainly to entertain, ranging from the evolution of fruit bats and warthogs to court etiquette under Alexander the Great and men's fixation on women's breasts.
Helikon 2012 · Nominee
Smartta ne e za vseki
Title translated by AI:“Death Is Not for Everyone”
Radoslav Parushev · 37 when first published
Short stories · 152 pages
AI-generated summary:Seventeen stories of contemporary city life, written within a few months of 2011; in one of them Umberto Eco turns up as a character and, at the end, brutally kills the author.
Helikon 2011 · Nominee
Zhivotat ne e za vseki
Title translated by AI:“Life Is Not for Everyone”
Radoslav Parushev · 36 when first published
Short stories · 159 pages
AI-generated summary:Short city stories about the magic hidden in everyday life and the challenge of being alive and being human.
Helikon 2009 · Nominee
Radoslav Parushev · 34 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Speculative, Satire
AI-generated summary:In a dystopian Santa Sofia at the start of the twenty-first century, people go wild over a newly found manuscript of the lost second volume of The Brothers Karamazov, and Aleksey K., a recently fired bank clerk, sets out to expose the hoax.