Zdravka’s short stories have been published in over twenty countries. Her novel Thursday won The Best Bulgarian Novel award in 2003 from the Union of Bulgarian Writers. As well, she has been awarded: a residency by the Shanghai Writing Program in 2012, the Balkanika Award for best book of the year by an author from the Balkan countries in 2013, and her short story “Seldom” was included in the Best European Fiction 2015.
She’s translated more than twenty novels by American, English, and Australian authors into Bulgarian, including the Nebula Prize-winning novel Red Mars by K.S. Robinson, Project Pope by Clifford Simac, What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt, among others. She has also translated into Bulgarian works by Salman Rushdie, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, V.S. Naipaul, John Updike, Jonathan Franzen, Raymond Carver, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and more. She lives in Pernik, Bulgaria where she works as a literary translator.
