{"id":4046,"date":"2024-01-10T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/?post_type=authors&#038;p=4046"},"modified":"2024-01-17T10:10:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T10:10:31","slug":"alek-popov","status":"publish","type":"authors","link":"https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/authors\/alek-popov\/","title":{"rendered":"Alek Popov"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4046\" class=\"elementor elementor-4046\" data-elementor-post-type=\"authors\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-379af65 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"379af65\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a85426 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4a85426\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64c9cc3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"64c9cc3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img31.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-2611\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img31.jpg 400w, https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img31-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img31-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img31-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d11db5f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d11db5f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0efefb7 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0efefb7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Alek Popov<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f6ed545 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f6ed545\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><label>Code:<\/label>\u00a0Alek Popov<br \/><label>Category:<\/label>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/authors\/\">Authors<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Novel:<\/strong>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/product\/mission-london\/\">Mission London<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><p>ALEK POPOV\u2019s short stories have been published in many languages including\u00a0German, Polish, Czech, Serbian, Turkish, Italian, English, Croatian, and\u00a0Slovenian. Alek Popov is author of the novel\u00a0<em>Mission London<\/em>\u00a0based on his colourful impressions as Cultural Attach\u00e9 to the Bulgarian Embassy in the UK.\u00a0<em>Mission London<\/em>\u00a0has been translated into 14 languages to date. The film after the novel became the most frequented Bulgarian movie for the last 20 years. It won the Unbribable Award of Transparency International Croatia&#8217;s program &#8220;Culture against Corruption&#8221; in 2011.<\/p><p>Popov\u2019s second novel\u00a0<em>The Black Box<\/em>\u00a0appeared in German, Serbian, Turkish and Polish. His most recent play &#8211;\u00a0<em>Blacksmiths\u00a0<\/em>was put on stage in 2012 and was nominated for the Askreer Awards. A\u00a0story based on the play was included in the anthology of Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive Press). Popov\u2019s third novel<em>\u00a0The Palavei Sisters\u00a0<\/em>was published in spring 2013.<\/p><p>For his literary works Popov has received numerous awards including the Elias Canetti Prize 2007,\u00a0the Helikon Prize 2002, and\u00a0the National Drama Award Ivan Radoev. In 2012 Alek Popov was elected a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Science in the field of Arts. 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