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Zachary Karabashliev is one of Bulgaria’s leading contemporary storytellers, working across fiction, theatre and screen. His novels include The Last Dolphin Hunter, Wound, The Tail, Havra, and 18% Gray. He has received four Novel of the Year awards, the Elias Canetti, Helikon and Hristo G. Danov awards, and his plays have received the Askeer Award. His books have been published in more than ten countries. He is Editor-in-Chief of Ciela, Bulgaria’s leading publishing house, and the founder of the VarnaLit International Literary Festival. He lives and works in Sofia.