(1947 - )
Vladimir Zarev (pseudonym of Vladimir Panteleev Pantev) was born in Sofia. He graduated from Sofia University in Bulgarian Language and Literature. He is editor-in-chief of the literary quarterly Savremennik and author of over 15 books. Among them are the novels Denyat na netarpenieto [The Day of Impatience] (1977), Protsesat [The Trial] (1984), Hratkata [Greyhound] (1987), Hratkata sreshtu hratkata [Greyhound vs. Greyhound] (1990), Leto 1850 [Anno 1988] (1988), Razruha [Decay] (2003), Pop Bogomil i savarshenstvoto na straha [Bogomil and the Perfection of Fear] (2004), Svetove [Worlds] (2008), as well as the trilogy Bitieto (1978), Izhodat (1983), Zakonat (2012). The TV adaptation of his novel Bitieto [Existence] entitled Darvoto na zhivota [The Tree of Life] has been running on one of the national TV channels since 2013.
In 2008 Vladimir Zarev was awarded a year-long writer-in-residence fellowship to the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Germany, by the Bavarian Minister of Culture. In 2010 he was fellow of the Artist-in-Residence program at Kunstmeile Krems, near Vienna.
Works by Vladimir Zarev have been translated into English by Zlatko Anguelov and Elizabeth Frank
In 2008 Vladimir Zarev was awarded a year-long writer-in-residence fellowship to the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Germany, by the Bavarian Minister of Culture. In 2010 he was fellow of the Artist-in-Residence program at Kunstmeile Krems, near Vienna.
Works by Vladimir Zarev have been translated into English by Zlatko Anguelov and Elizabeth Frank
