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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. The short story collection Pernik Stories won the Balkanika award for Best Book of the Year. Evtimova’s novel Thursday was published in Serbia in 2023 (Arhipelag), North Macedonia (Antolog, 2021) and is in the works for Czech. The novel The Same River hit the shelves in Bosnia in early 2024 (BuyBook) and her latest novel The Wolves of Staro Selo, recipient of the PEN Translates Award, was published by Héloïse Press in March 2025.
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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.