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Ludmila Filipova is one of the Bulgaria’s and Balkan’s most popular contemporary authors. Her books are also some of the most sellable and loved for a whole century, according to the national ratings (among six other classic authors) and already included into the necessary list of books for the Bulgarian schools by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science.

She is the author of the best-seller novels Anatomy of Illusions (2006), Scarlet Gold (2007), Glass Butterflies (2008), The Parchment Maze (2009), Dante’s Antichthon (2010), The Anomaly (2011), Typo (2012), The Eye Of The Sky (2013), The War of the Letters (2014)

(Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwb5RO1tHFw ), A Journey to the World's End (2015)

(Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGTbRb1rrnM ), “The Meaning: Encyclopedia of the Future” (2017) and “The Contact” (2020) which have become nationwide, and international bestsellers and have been translated already into several languages: English, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbian and German. Three of her novels are currently being developed into international feature films and serial films.

In 2011, a Television team from London WAG TV filmed a documentary movie for National Geographic based on the discoveries described in Ludmila’s novel The Parchment Maze (Part of the documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t76PYjUCPBc ). December 2011 Ludmila Filipowa was awarded as Woman of the year in the category Culture and Art.

With her novels, Ludmila Filipova was nominated for the European literary contest Prix du Livre Europeen 2008, short-listed for the Bulgarian literary contest Novel of the Year 2009, and as the only foreign novel nominated for the American literary award Hidden River 2009. In 2011 she got the height international Russian award Yugra in Siberia.

She graduated with master degree from the Economic University Sofia with high honors and from the City University, Seattle with an MBA. Ludmila specialized in Creative writing at Oxford University in 2009. In 2019 she graduated as a Master in Astrophysics with high honors in the Physical faculty of Sofia University “Climent Ofridski”.

Ludmila Filipova participated in 3 scientific expeditions to Antarctica. She is a member of the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute and APECS.

Moreover, Ludmila works as a TV presenter into the popular TV talk show at the national bTV called High Hills. She is also a columnist for the most popular Bulgarian newspaper 24 Hours. She worked as an editor in chief of Media&Marketing magazine and as a journalist for BusinessWeek Bulgaria. Ludmila Filipova’s books are based on, and inspired by real stories, events and facts.

She travels worldwide in order to gather the necessary information, conduct interviews, study manuscripts and do researches. For the last 17 years, she had many readings around Bulgaria, Oxford, London, Moscow, Rome, NYC, Los Angeles, Berlin, Turkey, Greece, Antarctica, Serbia, Thailand, Spain, Argentina, Chili, Iran, Lybia, Apolonia Cultural Festival at Sozopol, Sofia Science Festival, and many others.

Filipova has already 12 published novels and all of them became bestsellers in the region and in Amazon with thousands sold copies. Translated in 6 languages. The books of Ludmila are based on/or inspired by real stories and facts. She travels worldwide in order to gather the necessary information, make interviews and hard papers analysis researches.

Movies acting

Ludmila Filipova has been participating as an actor in several children’s movies, most popular from which are: "Kuche v chekmedje" 1982 (Dog in a drawer) - directed by Dimiter Petrov; "Deniat si lichi po zaranta" ( The day is recognizable by the morning) 1984: directed by Nedelcho Chernev; "Tursi se suprug za mama" ( Husband for Mom is needed) – directed by Mariana Evstatieva – Biolcheva; "The path of human civilization" - Traces in the sand, 2010, director Stilian Ivanov.