Zornitsa Hristova (1974) is a children books writer, literary translator, journalist, and editor-in-chief of a children’s news media. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Tochitza Publishers. Zornitsa has authored numerous books, including When I Want to Be Silent, Sweet Pet Mosquito, Short Tales to Finish in Your Dreams, A Taste of Geography, Urban Geography, Vacation in the Middle Ages, The King and the Rain, A Day at the Museum, Another Day at the Museum, The Eagle, the Sparrow and the Eaves, etc. Zornitsa Hristova is a laureate of the Hristo G. Danov award (2014 for A Taste of Geography and in 2015 for When I Want to Be Silent), the Peroto award (for her book on Vadim Lazarkevich) and Golden Lion award (for A Day at the Museum). As a translator, she has received the Krastan Dyankov Translation award (2019) and the Union of Translators in Bulgaria award (2012). Her books, Urban Geography and Another Day at the Museum were also included in the White Raven catalogues for 2017 and 2022. Zornitsa’s emblematic When I Want to Be Silent, illustrated by Kiril Zlatkov has been published in Croatian (Kreativna Mreža), French (Six Citrones Acides), Italian, (Orecchio Acerbo), Polish (Mamania), Russian (Popurri) and is forthcoming in English (HelvetiQ), Farsi (Neweeh Publications) and Turkish (Literatür Yayınları). Sweet Pet Mosquito is forthcoming in Armenian (Newmag) and Turkish (Megaz Cocuk).