Nataliya DELEVA is a Bulgarian-British writer living in London. Her debut novel, Невидими (Four Minutes), was originally published in Bulgaria (Janet 45 Publishing, 2017), where the book received the most prestigious Bulgarian prize for emerging literature in 2018 and was shortlisted for several other national awards. It has since been translated into German (eta Verlag, 2018), English (Open Letter Books, 2021) and Polish (Wydawnictwo EZOP, 2021), and it’s forthcoming in Spanish (Automatica, 2026).
Her second novel Arrival, written originally in English, was published by The Indigo Press, UK (2022), and it has been translated into Bulgarian as Пътна връв (Janet 45 Publishing, 2025).
Deleva’s short fiction, non-fiction and critique have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, such as Stories from the 90s (ICU Publishing, 2019), Words Without Borders, Fence, Psyche, Asymptote, Lunate, Review31 and Granta.
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