Emilia Dvoryanova

Emilia Dvoryanova is associate professor in Creative Writing at New Bulgarian University. Music, philosophy and religion are the focus of her creative work: The House (a novel), Sofia: Areta Publishers, 1993; Passion or the Death of Alice (a novel), Sofia: Obsidian Publishers, 1995 (winner of the Bulgarian Novel Award in 1996, published in France in 2006 by Federop Publishers); La Velata (a novella), Sofia: Fenea Publishers, 1998; Mrs. G (a novel), Sofia: Fenea Publishers, 2001; Virgin Mary’s Earthly Gardens (a novel), Sofia: Obsidian Publishers, 2006; Concerto for a Sentence—An Endeavor in the Musical-Erotic, Sofia: Obsidian Publishers, 2008. Emilia Dvoryanova is one of the most published and read writers in contemporary Bulgarian literature. The Virgin Mary’s Earthly Gardens (2006) received the Hristo G. Danov National award for literature, and in 2009 will be published in France in 2009 by Aden.