Thrown into Nature

Author Bio

Milen Ruskov (1966), a Bulgarian writer and translator, graduated from Sofia University in 1995. He has written two novels: Pocket Encyclopaedia of Mysteries, which was awarded the Bulgarian Prize for Debut Fiction, and Thrown into Nature, which was awarded the prize for VIK Novel of the Year.

Working as a translator from English, he has translated more than twenty books, including Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey, Novel Notes and The Angel and the Author by Jerome K. Jerome, Money by Martin Amis, and Transformation by Mary Shelley. In 2009, he won the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation’s Krustan Dyankov Translation Award for his translations of Money by Martin Amis and De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage.