Elena Alexieva (1975) is without a doubt one of the most emblematic contemporary Bulgarian writers and playwrights. Her works have appeared in periodical publications and anthologies in English, German, French, Polish, Russian and Spanish. Her short story collection Who was published in Spain (Nocturna Ediciones, 2010), followed by The Knight, the Devil and Death in Montenegro (Octoix, 2012) and The Nobel Laureate in France (Actes Sud, 2015). The Fun Fair, a short story which appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Elena’s novel Saint Wolf (2018) is the winner of the national Novel of the Year award (2019) and the Peroto national award for contemporary Bulgarian fiction (2019). The title has been translated in Macedonian (Prozart, 2022) and Arabic (Mamdouh Adwan, 2024). In 2023 her latest published novel Vulcan was shortlisted for Peroto by the National Book Centre of Bulgaria. For her works for theatre, Elena is also recipient of the two major Bulgarian awards for modern drama, Askeer (2013, for The Therapist) and Ikar (2015, for Madame Mishima).