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Alek Popov Novelist Bulgaria
Alek Popov, a prose writer and playwright, was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1966. He graduated from St. Constantine Ciril Philosopher College for Ancient Languages and Cultures in Sofia and later received his Masters of Arts degree in Bulgarian Language and Literature from the University of Sofia. He is one of the most widely read and translated contemporary Bulgarian writers. Eight collections of Popov’s short stories have been published in Bulgarian to date. He has books with short stories in German, Turkish, Polish, and Serbian too. His first novel Mission: London based on colorful impressions as Cultural Attaché at the Bulgarian Embassy in the United Kingdom appeared in 2001 and has several editions so far. It was translated into French, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Polish and Italian. The novel was filmed in 2010. His collection of essays, The Radical Thinker’s Companion was published by Bulgarian News Agency in 2005 and appeared in Serbian. His novel The Black Box was published in 2007. That same year it won the Elias Canetti Prize. It was published in German by Residenz Verlag in 2008 under the title “Dogs are flying low”. Alek Popov has won several literary awards including the National Radio's Pavel Veshinov Award for the best criminal short story, the Graviton Award for best science fiction, the Raško Sugarev Award for best short story, the prize Helicon for best prose book of the year 2002, the Annual Prize of Clouds magazine for the English translation of Mission London; and the National Prize for Drama ‘Ivan Radoev’ in 2005. Alek Popov was the secretary of the Bulgarian P.E.N. Centre.
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