Hristo Karastoyanov (1950 – 2024) was one of the most prominent authors of his generation. In 2012 his Cuscuta Trilogy was published in German by Dittrich Verlag (Teufelszwirn, Roman in drei Büchern). His novel The Name won the prestigious Helikon award in December of the same year. In 2014, his next novel The Same Night Awaits Us All was awarded the Novel of the Year award and the Helikon, as it went on to become one of the most celebrated Bulgarian books of 2014. It was published in English in the US by Open Letter Books in 2018. The book was also adapted for theatre as Geo and played at the Bulgarian National Theatre. The Same Night Awaits Us All also won the Pencho’s Oak award (2014) and the Elias Canetti National Literary Award (2015). Karastoyanov’s work has been published in nearly a dozen languages, including English, German, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, and Macedonian, and has been included in various Bulgarian and foreign anthologies.