Bogdan Russew
Bogdan Russew ( Bulgarian Богдан Русев ; born November 11, 1975 in Sliven ) is a Bulgarian writer . He is one of the contemporary authors of the new Bulgaria. Russew is the author of collections of short stories, books for young readers and the novels Come to Me (2007), The House (2008), The Tourist (2010) and The Room (2014). Russew's short stories have appeared in Granta Magazine , Twenty Contemporary Bulgarian Storytellers, and a number of Bulgarian publications.
Life
Russew completed a degree in English and American studies at the University of Sofia with a Magister Artium and then specialized at King's College London . Russew was editor-in-chief of several magazines and creative director of two advertising agencies. Today he lives as a freelance writer and translator in Sofia .
Create
Bogdan Russew's short stories first appeared in Bulgarian media from 1999. The volumes Electrochakra (2001) and The Singles Collection (2009) summarize these publications. The books for young readers were published in 2004 ( 12 Stories of Documentation , Fantasy Adventure , Extended Edition 2009) and 2012 ( The Endless Road , Science-Fiction).
His first novel Come to Me was published in 2007. It tells of growing up in Bulgaria in the 1990s, when almost a million young Bulgarians turned their backs on their country after the collapse of the communist regime. Come to Me is being prepared for publication in the US at the Dalkey Archive Press. This was followed by The House in 2008, a detective novel about former gossip columnist and self-proclaimed private investigator Niki Valkov. Niki investigates the attempted murder of the film star Nicoletta, which is practically carried out in front of the camera during a Big Brother show. The House was published in 2015 under the title Koma Princess by Louisoder, Munich . His third novel, The Tourist , was published in 2010. It is the story of a man who travels the world to write hotel reviews - a cover activity for his actual work: helping people who want to end their lives. The main character remains nameless throughout the novel and there is no dialogue - all conversations are rendered as neutrally as possible to create a darkly comical atmosphere of complete alienation. An expanded, revised version of the novel will be published in English as A Tourist, He Thought by Austin Macauley Publishers, London.
His novel The Room was published in 2014 as a follow-up novel to The House . In The Room, Niki Valkov investigates the disappearance of a young woman who works in an adult chat room.
Works
- 2001: Electrochakra (short stories)
- 2004: 12 Stories of Documentast (Fantasy Adventure)
- 2007: Come to Me (novel)
- 2008: The House (novel)
- 2009: The Singles Collection (short stories)
- 2010: The Tourist (novel)
- 2012: The Endless Road (science fiction)
- 2014: The Room (novel)
- 2015: Koma Princess (German translation of the novel The House )
Web links
- Koma Princess , German translation of the novel The House published by Louisoder Verlag
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Russew, Bogdan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Русев, Богдан (Bulgarian); Rusev, Bogdan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sliven |