Emil Andreev

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Emil Andreev
Born	(1956-09-01)1 September 1956 Lom, Bulgaria
Occupation	Novelist, writer, playwright
Language	Bulgarian
Nationality	Bulgarian

Emil Andreev (Bulgarian: Емил Андреев) (born 1 September 1956, Lom, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian writer, novelist and playwright.

Biography[]

Emil Andreev graduated in English Language Studies from the Veliko Tarnovo University.^[1] He has worked as a teacher, newspaper editor and lecturer in English at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski".

Andreev has won several awards for his writing, including the Vick and Helikon prizes for fiction. He is an author of the plays "Treasure-hunters", "The Baby" and the comedy "To kill a prime minister" which were played on the scene of the Theatre of Satire, Sofia. His works have been translated into English, German, Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Serbian.

His novel The Glass River has been filmed with an international cast and is already on screen in Bulgaria.

Awards and nominations[]

• 2007 – Nominated for Elias Canetti Award for The Curse of the Frog
• 2007 – Nominated for the Balkanika Award for The Glass River
• 2007 – Winner of the Helikon National Award for The Curse of The Frog
• 2006 – Nomination for the Best East European Novel for The Glass River
• 2005 – Winner of the VICK Award “Novel of the Year” for The Glass River
• 2005 – Winner of the Readers’ Award for The Glass River

Books[]

Short Stories:

• Lom Stories (1996)
• Late Art Noveau (1998)
• The Drunkard’s Island (1999)

Plays

• To Kill a Prime Minister (2002)
• The Treasure Hunters (2003)
• J's Magical Boat (2005)

Novels

• The Glass River (2004)
• The Curse of the Frog (2006)
• Crazy Luka (2010)

References[]

External links[]

• Emil Andreev's Profile on the Contemporary Bulgarian Writers Website
• Emil Andreev at LiterNet
• The Glass River English edition
• Interview in Standart newspaper
• Vick Prize for the Bulgarian Novel of the Year
• Notable Lom people in the Lom municipality website
• The Glass River movie