Hristo Karastoyanov (1950 – 2024) was one of the most prominent authors of his generation. In 2012 Dittrich Verlag, published his Cuscuta Trilogy (Teufelszwirn, Roman in drei Büchern). His novel The Name won the prestigious Helikon award in December of the same year. The novel The Same Night Awaits Us All was awarded the Novel of the Year award, the Helikon, as it went on to become one of the most celebrated Bulgarian books of 2014. The theatre performance Geo (2015), directed for the stage by Ivan Dobchev at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Sofia, was based on motifs from the book. The Same Night Awaits Us All also won the Pencho’s Oak award (2014) and the Elias Canetti national literary award (2015). His work has been included in various Bulgarian and foreign anthologies, and his stories have been published in Russian, Turkish, Arabic and English.