Nikolay Terziyski (1983) is a screenwriter and co-host of a popular TV show about politics and literature. His debut novel Excommunication (2017) gained a huge fanbase as the book’s first edition sold out in less than six months. Excommunication won first prize in the Prose category at the prestigious national competition for literary debut Yuzhna Prolet. It was also shortlisted for the Peroto awards for its contribution to the Bulgarian literary context. With his second book Chronicles of the Unknown (2019), Terziyski firmly established himself as a literary novelist with deep interest in family histories with their roots and branches deep into the past, the inevitability of destiny, love and hatred, war and compassion. Stars Under the Eyelids is Terziyski’s third novel, published in 2022 which is currently in the works in French and Macedonian (Tri Publishing Centre).