Lyubomir Nikolov

Lyubomir Nikolov, a Bulgarian writer and literary translator is the winner of the first Translation Award of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation. The Award was given to him for his translation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, published in Bulgarian by Obsidian Publisher.

Since 1988, Nikolov has translated more than 70 books from English by authors, including J. R. R. Tolkien, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, John Grisham, Frank Herbert, John Updike, and Clifford Simak. For his translation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, he received the Award of the Union of Bulgarian Translators (1991).