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Ludmila Filipova

Ludmila Filipova was born on Easter 1977. She graduated from the University of National and World Economy – Sofia, with high honors, and was conferred Bachelor Degree in 2000. She is graduated from the City University, MBA Degree in General Management.

Ludmila specialized Creative writing fiction in Oxford University (Oxford Royal Academy program) in 2009.
 

Creative Work

Filipova has already four novels and all of them became bestsellers in the region.
 
The books of Ludmila Filipova are based on or inspired by real stories and facts. She travels worldwide in order to gather the necessary information, make interviews and hard papers analysis researches.

ANATOMY OF ILLIUSIONS (2006) is the debut novel of the young writer Ludmila Filipova. The book is one of the most successful stories about the Bulgarian transition period, which started in 1989 and one of the bestsellers on the Bulgarian book market for 2006 and 2007. It is based on a real story of a boy and girl in the Bulgarian transition from communism to democracy. It was reprinted 5 times. Currently the book is translated in German language.

SCARLET GOLD (2007) is the second novel of Filipova. The book is the bestseller on the Bulgarian book market for 2007 year. The author already sold the rights for a movie, which will be multinational co-production. The book is translated in English and currently is in the process of translation of German. Scarlet Gold is an international political thriller that deals with an issue of urgent significance - the trafficking of human blood which victims are already 3 000 000. The book is already published in Russia.

GLASS BUTTERFLIES (February 2008) is the third novel of Ludmila Filipova. It was already nominated for the second selection on the European literary contest “Prix du Livre Europeen 2008”. And it is the only foreign novel nominated for the American literary award “Hidden River 2009”. Moreover, the novel was nominated for the second selection on the Bulgarian literary contest “Novel of the year 2009”.
One of the most powerful features of the novel is that it attempts to reveal for the first time in the literature the world scale and risks of uncontrolled trading with genetic material, millions human embryos and advanced reproductive technologies. In a drama-thriller story the novel unravels the details around the practice of trading with live embryos. Currently there are 5 million frozen embryos worldwide. There are real factories that produce and sale people each day. Some of them commissioned. Some will remain in nitrogen for many years. Many of them are siblings or twins. The book is due to be published in Turkey and Serbia. And already published in Russia from the biggest Russian publishing house AST (Olymp branch company) GLASS BUTTERFLIES is the second novel of Ludmila published in Russia and Ludmila Filipova was the first Bulgarian writer published in Russia after 20 years.

THE PARCHMENT MAZE (2009) is a historical novel in which each scene is based on actual historical fact and an extant artifact. The place and time of the events in the novel are actual. The novel has many exits and it is up to the reader which one he will choose to use. Each chapter in the book is a new page from the lost final part of a secret mediaeval manuscript discovered in a library in Rome. Formed around facts and academic texts the novel imperceptibly overturns our notions of history, religion and philosophy. The book is accompanied by hundreds photographs from Moscow, Burma, Berlin, Greece, Rome and Thrace taken by the author and which illustrate the novel. The researching on its topics took mote than three years and traveled the territory over of seven countries. The idea for the novel had born under the ground, at the lowest point on the Balkan Peninsula that a human could reach to.