Силвия Томова
Bulgaria
Helikon 2018 · Nominee
Grohot
Title translated by AI:“Rumble”
Novel · 240 pages · War, Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1941, with the German Reich ruling from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Bulgaria faces a fateful choice, and the war is seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier and of the people in its path.
Helikon 2016 · Nominee
Milost za priyatelite
Title translated by AI:“Mercy for Friends”
Novel · 299 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:A gang of ordinary boys from a small seaside town looks, sometimes naively, for its place in a heartless and confused world during the years of Bulgaria's transition.
Helikon 2015 · Nominee
Pechataryat
Title translated by AI:“The Printer”
Novel · 460 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:The life of Yakov Kraykov, born in the Balkans, who worked in sixteenth-century Venice as one of the first printers of Cyrillic books, a half-historical, half-mystical figure hidden in the shadows of the past.