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Zdravka Evtimova
Zdravka Evtimova (1959) is a Bulgarian writer and translator, winner of numerous literary accolades, including Bulgaria’s Favourite Writer at the eponymous show on Bulgarian TV in 2021. Her novels and short story collections have been published in Bosnia, Canada, China, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Iran, Italy, Spain, North Macedonia, Serbia, UK, and the USA. Her short story Vassil was one of the award winners in the BBC international short story competition. The short story Blood of a Mole is included in a literary anthology for middle school education in the USA as well as in Danish high school textbooks. Evtimova’s novel Thursday was published in Serbia in 2023 (Arhipelag), North Macedonia (Antolog, 2021), Croatia (Neolit, 2026) and is in the works for Czech. The novel The Same River hit the shelves in Bosnia in early 2024 (BuyBook), Italy in 2025 (Besa Mucci Edizione), it is also forthcoming in Polish (Grupa Wydawnicza Relacja) and Spanish (Baile del Sol). Her latest novel The Wolves of Staro Selo, recipient of the PEN Translates Award, was published by Héloïse Press in 2025 and is forthcoming in Hungarian (Fekete Sas Kiadó) and Polish (Grupa Wydawnicza Relacja).
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Current Titles
Short Stories, 200 pages, 2023
Freckled Stories
This collection contains twenty pieces never failing to manifest Evtimova’s brilliant storytelling skills, both in
the register of the comic and the tragic.
Novel, 295 pages, 2022
The Wolves of Staro Selo
The Wolves of Staro Selo takes place in Radomir, more precisely in its most deprived neighborhood Staro Selo — Evtimova’s Bulgarian Macondo.
SHORT STORIES, 264 pages, 2019
Blood of a Mole
Blood of a Mole introduces a nameless character who runs a pet shop. Barely anyone ever comes in and buys anything, until one day a strange lady comes in asking for the blood of a mole.
Novel, 272 Pages, 2015
The Same River
We never go in the same river twice — the river does not follow the route that universe has mapped out for it; its waters flow with the songs into which the characters have transformed their lives.
Short stories, 276 pages, 2026
Stories from Kavarna
Zdravka Evtimova’s talent to present us with incredible but entirely realistic situations, full of unexpected plot twists and to craft vivid dialogue with a subtle flair for the aphoristic…