« The Tesse in his Maze » by Krasimir Dimovski won the Roman of the Year Award
| The novel is dynamic and full of twists. « The Tone in its Labyrinth » is a kind of continuation of the books « The Girl Who Predicts the Past » and « The Mermaid Hunter » and ends the thematic trilogy, notes in his annotation. |
33 novels, published in 2024, participated in the race this year, and the other five finalists were « Ti, my likeness » by Radoslav Bimbalov (« Ciela »), « Gardener and Death » by Georgi Gospodinov (« Jeanette 45 »), « Mandarini » Rakhnev (« Jeanette 45 ») and « Murder of Stamboliyski Boulevard » by Chavdar Tsenov (Riva Publishing).
The nominated six works and their authors were elected by a jury chaired by Acad. Vladimir Zarev and members Prof. Valeri Stefanov, Zdravka Evtimova, Assoc. Prof. Ani Burova and Assoc. Prof. Moris Fadel. During the ceremony, Acad. Zarev stated that ten years ago, when he was on the jury of the competition, they were extremely difficult to choose because most novels were very badly written, while now the opposite was the opposite and at least twenty of them deserved to be honored.
The competition was first announced in 2009, initially awarding the award every two years. For the first time the National Literary Award « Bulgarian Roman of the Year » 13 Century Bulgaria was awarded in 2011.
« Humanity needs landing »
Last year, the award was presented to Elena Alexieva for her novel « Volcano » (ed. « Jeanette 45 »). However, this caused acute controversy in the literary circles because Assoc. Prof. Boris Minkov, who was part of the jury at the time, is the editor of the publication. Shortly thereafter, Alexieva announced that she was giving up a prize and returned the received statuette.
| Shortly thereafter, the competition was renewed and in November as Roman of the Year for 2024, Zahari Karabashliev (Ciela ed.) Was selected. |
Previously, the writer had won the award with the Havre novel twice in 2018 and with « The Tail » in 2022. Georgi Gospodinov was a laureate twice – in 2013 for his novel « Physics of Sadness » and in 2021 for « Time of Subway ».
Other winners of the award are Galin Nikiforov with « The Summer of the Losts » (2011), Vasil Georgiev – « apparatus » (2014); Emilia Dvoryanova – « At the entrance to the sea » (2015); Zdravka Evtimova – « The same river » (2016); Momchil Nikolov – « The Last Territory » (2017); Zahari Karabashliev – Havra (2018); Elena Alexieva – « St. Wolf » (2019); Teodora Dimova -« affected » (2020); Todor Todorov – Hagabula (2023).
