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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Nataliya Deleva and 1 other person liked Диана's review of Arrival:
Arrival by Nataliya Deleva
"An amazing book and a pretty insightful comment on motherhood, both from the eyes of the main character being a daughter and becoming a mother herself. The motive of acceptance is interesting. It created at amazing atmosphere of dread and...hope at t" Read more of this review »
Arrival by Nataliya Deleva
"4.25 ⭐️

I absolutely loved this unexpected pick at the library. The blurb gave nothing away except for a nod at themes of childhood domestic violence and the effects of it in love in adulthood.

This was a really beautifully written and formatted story" Read more of this review »
Пътна връв by Nataliya Deleva
""Пътна връв" от Наталия Делева е брутална книга.
Авторката пише много красиво и увлекателно за нещо много грозно и болезнено: домашното насилие. През очите на млада жена, носеща травмите на детството си, изпълнено със страх и ужас; през погледа и като" Read more of this review »
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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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