Damyan Damyanov

Damyan Damyanov is an artist and lecturer at New Bulgarian University. He works in the fields of book design, illustration, poster art, postage stamps, comics and animation. He has created numerous book covers and illustrations for leading Bulgarian publishing houses. He is the author of the typographic experiment "Pod ezika" (Under the Tongue), which has been exhibited in Bulgaria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland and published as a two-part book, as well as the activity and colouring book Draw Me a Sheep. He is the recipient of the national "Konstantin Konstantinov", "Hristo G. Danov" and "Golden Brush" awards. In 2024 and 2025, he was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the major international prize for children’s literature.