Захари Карабашлиев
Born 1968 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2024 · Nominee
Rana
Title translated by AI:“Wound”
Zachary Karabashliev · 55 when first published
Novel · 319 pages · War, Love, Historical
AI-generated summary:Sava, a refugee from Thrace after the Balkan Wars studying law in Sofia, and Eliza, a general's daughter and gifted pianist, share a brief love before the war sends him in September 1916 to the Dobrudzha front.
Helikon 2021 · Nominee
Opashkata
Title translated by AI:“The Tail”
Zachary Karabashliev · 53 when first published
Novel · 390 pages · Speculative, Love, Politics
AI-generated summary:A few years after the Second Pandemic, amid economic upheaval and mass unrest, Pavel proposes to Nevena and that same night discovers that she has inexplicably grown a real tail.
Helikon 2017 · Nominee
Havra
Zachary Karabashliev · 49 when first published
Novel · 704 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:After thirteen years in America, Nikola Markov returns to his home town for his father's funeral; at the end of the nineteenth century the young Russian aristocrat Vera Elegina meets an American war correspondent.
Helikon 2012 · Nominee
Simetria
Title translated by AI:“Symmetry”
Zachary Karabashliev · 43 when first published
Short stories · 154 pages
AI-generated summary:Thirteen stories: a cat named Johnny Socks in midnight Brooklyn, two partners facing bankruptcy in California, a freed prisoner heading home to Dobrudzha, a widower visiting his daughter in America, a parking attendant in Varna.
Helikon 2009 · Winner
Kratka istoria na samoleta
Title translated by AI:“A Short History of the Airplane”
Zachary Karabashliev · 41 when first published
Short stories · 124 pages
AI-generated summary:Fifteen stories that move between Bulgaria and America: a childhood café housed in an old aeroplane, a stranger's warmth on a bus, two brothers in love with the same girl, an old couple dancing to jazz in Cincinnati.
Helikon 2008 · Nominee
18% сиво · 18% sivo
Zachary Karabashliev · 40 when first published
Novel · 264 pages · Love, Crime
AI-generated summary:Days after the love of his life has left him, Zack, a former photographer working for a Californian drug company, crosses into Mexico to drown his grief, and after a wild night in Tijuana escapes a bloody fight in his attackers' van.