Milan Asadurov

Milan Asadurov (born 1949) is a Bulgarian author, publisher, and translator of science fiction. He has been writing short stories and scripts for television and radio since 1968. In 1979 he founded one of the first, most popular, and longest running science fiction publishers’ series in Bulgaria called “Galaxy”, with over a hundred books to date. Authors published in the catalogue range from Isaac Asimov, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Strugatsky Brothers, and Ursula K. Le Guin to Yordan Radichkov, William Faulkner, and Herbert Wells. Some of them published for the first time in Bulgarian.

Milan Asadurov translates a number of books by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky “Roadside Picnic" or "Stalker" (1980), “The Ugly Swans” (1982), “Beetle in the Anthill” (1984), “The Time Wanderers” (1985), “The Doomed City” (1990) and “A Tale of the Troika” (1993) among them. He was editor-in-chief of The Lighthouse Almanac and the scientific series of Neptun Publishing where he publishes works of Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

In 1982, together with the photographer Angel Zlatanov, he travels from Krapets to Ahtopol and writes a succession of 12 articles about the history of "Lighthouses on the Bulgarian Black Sea Shore". He was editor-in-chief of Maritime Magazine through the70's and ran his shows on radio and TV through the 80's. In 1991 he founded his own publishing house and a bookstore "Stalker". In 1997 he publishes the first book of his Sci-Fi trilogy Tales of Naught - “Library or No Way”, “Second Library”, “Dictionary of Naught”. In 1999 Milan Asadurov translates and publishes Events by Daniil Kharms and in 2007 Lev Gumilyov's "Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere of Earth".

• Milan Asadurov

• Bulgarian Author, b. 1949 Varna, Bulgaria