Nataliya Deleva

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Nataliya Deleva

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Nataliya Deleva is a Bulgarian-born writer, living in London. Her debut novel, Four Minutes, was originally published in Bulgaria (Janet 45, 2017), where the book was awarded Best Debut Novel and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year (2018). It has since been translated into German (eta Verlag, 2018), English (Open Letter Books, 2021) and Polish (Wydawnictwo EZOP, 2021).

Her short fiction, essays, interviews and book reviews have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, such as Words Without Borders, Fence, Asymptote, Empty Mirror, Reading in Translation, Granta and the anthologies Stories from the 90s (ICU Publishing, 2019) and Love for advanced (Colibri, 2022).

Her second novel ARRIVAL, written originally in English, is published by T
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"Много истинска книга - за изборите в живота белязани от миналото, за болката, прошката, силата да продължиш напред и да изградиш най-добрата версия на себе си. "
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"As an Eastern European myself who migrated to the West I could finally find myself in a book. I loved it, a short but beautiful read, sometimes full of painful moments but inspiring because it shows that Eastern female resilience that is so familiar " Read more of this review »
Пътна връв by Nataliya Deleva
"Прекрасен роман - за възрастния и нараненото дете, силата да продължиш и страшно отекващите стъпки от миналото, може ли детето да спаси родителя и себежертвената обич, която те оставя на колене пред насилника - с мисълта, че ще се промени."
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Forgottenness by Tanja Maljartschuk is a novel about time and the fragility of life. Elegantly translated into English by Zenia Tompkins, it grapples with the way people and events vanish and dissolve the further away they move in time, the traces th ...more
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“All these years later it’s like the blanket is still imbibed with her sorrow. Like an umbilical cord, it still connects me to her, melds each of my days to the day of my entrance into the world and to my severance from her.
Its edges are frayed and with each new day of my life, I think I see a run further unraveling the fibers, taking me further away from that first and last cuddle. I fear that one day it’ll unravel too far, it’ll make my bond with her so threadbare, it’ll waste away and vanish altogether. And I will forget. I will forget my mother; I will forget that I was ever born. I will forget everything.”
Nataliya Deleva, Niewidzialni

“The question changed, the letters distorted and regrouped. […] Why did you leave, Naya? […] You left me to smoke alone in the dark. To slap my palm into my forehead, scratch my nails against my numbed scalp and pull my hair”
Nataliya Deleva, Niewidzialni

“But what I could never quite grasp was how a mother’s love, so boundless and unconditional, could exist simply because a child did.”
Nataliya Deleva, Niewidzialni

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