Milen Ruskov is a Bulgarian writer and translator. His first novel, Pocket Encyclopaedia of Mysteries, received the Bulgarian Prize for Debut Fiction, and Thrown into Nature won the VIK Novel of the Year. He has translated more than 20 books into Bulgarian.
Angela Rodel earned an M.A. in linguistics from UCLA and received a Fulbright Fellowship to study and learn Bulgarian. In 2010 she won a PEN Translation Fund Grant for Georgi Tenev's short story collection. She is one of the most prolific translators of Bulgarian literature working today.
