Yulia Spiridonova

Yulia Spiridonova is the author of over thirty books for children and teenagers, including the novels The Shadow of the Grasshopper, Kronos, That Wretch, Tina and a Half, the comic fantasy trilogy Krastyo – Private Detective, Tales of the Little Owl, and the book on family memory The Scissors (co-authored with the artist Damyan Damyanov). Her books have been honoured with the national literary awards "Peroto", "Hristo G. Danov", "Petko R. Slaveykov" and others. She is the first Bulgarian writer to be nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the major international prize for children’s literature.

Her works have been translated into French, Hungarian, Czech, Ukrainian, Romanian, Macedonian, Russian and Farsi.