Теодора Димова
Born 1960 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2023 · Winner
Ne vi poznavam
Title translated by AI:“I Don't Know You”
Theodora Dimova · 63 when first published
Novel · 443 pages · Politics, Family
AI-generated summary:In present-day Bulgaria, Aleksandra, the child of an earlier novel, is now grown up and bears the weight of the past, as the mindset of 9 September 1944, long hidden, shows its teeth again.
Helikon 2019 · Nominee
Porazenite
Title translated by AI:“The Stricken”
Theodora Dimova · 59 when first published
Novel · 250 pages · Historical, Politics, Family
AI-generated summary:On an icy February dawn, a group of women whose husbands have been killed walk to the pit where the bodies were buried, in a novel about three women and a child struck down by the regime set up after the coup of 9 September 1944.
Helikon 2017 · Nominee
Parviyat rozhden den
Title translated by AI:“The First Birthday”
Theodora Dimova · 56 when first published
Novella · 122 pages
AI-generated summary:The young Mariam and the old Joseph, each with a family history behind them, tell in two voices how the visit of the angel Gabriel upends their quiet lives in the year before and after the birth of Jesus.
Helikon 2014 · Nominee
Vlakat za Emaus
Title translated by AI:“The Train to Emmaus”
Theodora Dimova · 54 when first published
Novel · 151 pages
AI-generated summary:A many-layered account of a life that has passed through trials and grief, of a slowly approaching death and the overcoming of the fear of it, of finding faith and of the meetings we keep walking towards.
Helikon 2010 · Nominee
Marma, Mariam
Theodora Dimova · 50 when first published
Novel · 256 pages
AI-generated summary:The daughter of a senior State Security officer, her life wrecked after 1989 and herself turned out by her own daughter, finds refuge in a small church by the Black Sea, where she retells the story of Jesus and his mother Miriam.