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Yordanka Beleva

Йорданка Белева

Born 1977 · Bulgaria

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Helikon 2025 · Nominee

    Божията милост

    Bozhiyata milost

    Title translated by AI:“God's Mercy”

    Yordanka Beleva · 48 when first published

    Short stories · 100 pages

    AI-generated summary:Short stories, most told by a girl growing up in a small town close to her grandparents, where quarrels between her parents, family shame and death break into a seemingly cosy childhood.

  • No English yet

    Helikon 2018 · Nominee

    Кедер

    Keder

    Title translated by AI:“Sorrow”

    Yordanka Beleva · 41 when first published

    Short stories · 89 pages

    AI-generated summary:Short stories of loss and of those left behind, among them a village family who keep mending a dead neighbour's bicycle tyres each morning, caught in the forty sorrows the dead are said to leave their loved ones.