Svet Di-Nahum
Svet Di-Nahum has published short stories in many literary magazines in Bulgaria and all over Europe; some of his works have been translated into English, German, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Serbian, Turkish, Spanish, and French. Author, The Wolf's Howl, Short Novel, 1994; The Unicorn in Captivity, Short Stories, 2007; Raptus, Novel, 2009; The Doctrinaire, Novel, 2015; Nicola Against Nicola, Novelette, 2012; Referendum In Chess-Club Bulgaria, Theater Play, 2012. Raptus was among nominations for the Elias Canetti National Literary Award and was subsequently published in USA by Hammer & Anvil Books, Las Vegas (2013). There is Raptus film project based on the novel. Associated member of PEN American Center. Graduated in the USA in 1994 - Southern Illinois University, Department of Philosophy. Guest Editor, Co-Editor, Audience Magazine, NYC. A great lover of NYC, author of the short story My New Yorker Love (based on a true story - falling in love with The New Yorker fiction editor). Author of several short stories about NYC and its top artistic high-life (Short Story Series Among the Shadows of Soho).
Winner of Essay Competition for World Noble Peace Prize Laureates Summit 2013 in Warsaw with his essay Solidarity Restarted. He has published short fiction in Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Virtual Studio.
Author of screenplays: The Second Life of Michael Jackson (2011), The Unicorn In Captivity (2012), Rays (2013).
In 2012 wins BTV competition for sitcom episode (TV comedy series Home Arrest). His book Escape from Crimea raised international awareness about the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014; it has been published in Ukraine (awarded with the Ukrainian Panteleimon Kulish International Literary Prize in 2019), Bulgaria, and the USA, with a Ukrainian feature film project in progress. Svet received the 2022 Dissident Award from Cervena Barva Press, USA. His fiction has appeared in US literary magazines such as Drunken Boat, Gloom Cupboard, Danse Macabre, and Audience, and in HCE Magazine in the UK. Honorable Member of the Ukrainian National Writers Association. Co-host for Volya Radio.