About

Nataliya DELEVA is a Bulgarian-born writer living in London, UK. Her debut novel Four Minutes, originally published in Bulgaria as Невидими (Janet45 Publishing, 2017) and then in Germany as Übersehen (eta Verlag, 2018) is forthcoming in English from Open Letter Books (2021) and in Polish from Wydawnictwo EZOP (2021). It won the Best Debut Novel Award (Peroto Literary Awards 2018), Second Prize for Debut Prose (Southern Spring, 2018) and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year (13 Centuries Bulgaria, 2018). She also won third prize at two Bulgarian national poetry competitions: Binio Ivanov (2018) and Slavejkov’s Award (2018).

Deleva’s short fiction, novel excerpts, essays, book reviews and interviews appeared in literary journals and anthologies, such as Words Without Borders, Fence, Asymptote, Empty Mirror, Granta, Lunate, Ex/Post and the anthologies Colour, Stories From the 90s (ICU Publishing, 2019), Любовта за напреднали (Ciela) and Granta Bulgaria: Beyond the Illness. 

Her second novel ARRIVAL (The Indigo Press, UK, 2022) is written originally in English and it explores the ripple effects of childhood trauma, identity and belonging.