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name: Zachary Karabashliev/Захари Карабашлиев
about: Zachary Karabashliev is a novelist, playwright and a screenwriter. His debut novel "18% Gray" was published in 2008, became a bestselling title in Bulgaria, and was later published in the United States, France, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, and other countries. It won the prestigious Novel of the Year Award in Bulgaria, and was filmed in 2020 as an international co-production. His novel "Havra" (meaning something like Heath or Wastelands) came out in 2017 and was awarded the two most prestigious national literary Awards - Novel of the Year 2017, and H.G. Danov. His short stories included in the collections "A Brief History of the Airplane" and "Symmetry" have been translated and published in many languages. His "Metastasis" was publish Zachary Karabashliev is a novelist, playwright and a screenwriter. His debut novel "18% Gray" was published in 2008, became a bestselling title in Bulgaria, and was later published in the United States, France, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, and other countries. It won the prestigious Novel of the Year Award in Bulgaria, and was filmed in 2020 as an international co-production. His novel "Havra" (meaning something like Heath or Wastelands) came out in 2017 and was awarded the two most prestigious national literary Awards - Novel of the Year 2017, and H.G. Danov. His short stories included in the collections "A Brief History of the Airplane" and "Symmetry" have been translated and published in many languages. His "Metastasis" was published in the collection Best European Short Stories by Dalkey Archive Press in 2018. His stage plays have been produced on stage in Bulgaria and US (La Mamma Theatre, New York, 2014, Chicago 2020) winning numerous prestigious awards.His latest novel "The Tail" was published 2021, a stage play based on the novel, directed by Javor Gardev was produced at Dramatic Theatre "Ivan Radoev", Pleven.Zachary Karabashliev is the Editor-in-chief of the publishing house Ciela. He lives in Sofia with his family. ...more