Galin Nikiforov is a contemporary Bulgarian writer

Contemporary Bulgarian Writers

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. He was born in 1968 and lives in Dobrich

Dobrich

Dobrich is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Dobrich Province. With 91,030 inhabitants, as of February 2011, Dobrich is the ninth most populated town in Bulgaria, being the centre of the historical region of Southern Dobruja...

, Bulgaria. He graduated from the Technical University of Plovdiv and the Economic University of Varna. He has worked as an engineer in the industry since 1993. He is married and has a daughter. In 2011 his book 'Losers' Summer' won the biggest literature competition in the country - 'Novel of the Year'. A month later his last novel 'The House of Clowns' has won one of the biggest literature awards ' Elias Canetti'.

Books

Novels:

• The Last Truth (1998);
• Fairly Gently (2003);
• Good Guy (2006);
• The Photographer: Obscura Reperta(2009);
• Losers' Summer (2010);
• The House of Clowns (2011).

External links

• Galin Nikiforov's Profile at the Contemporary Bulgarian Writers Website