Stefan Kisyov is a novelist, journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

, playwright

Playwright

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 and short story

Short story

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 writer. Kisyov was born in Stara Zagora

Stara Zagora

Stara Zagora is the sixth largest city in Bulgaria, and a nationally important economic center. Located in Southern Bulgaria, it is the administrative capital of the homonymous Stara Zagora Province...

 in 1963. He studied at Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 and Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...

 universities, and also at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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 in Paris

Paris

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. He has worked as an electrician

Electrician

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 at a tram depot, locksmith at a chemical factory, administrator at a Black Sea hotel, stage hand at the Stara Zagora Opera

Opera

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, waiter, newspaper journalist and in television. He lived in France

France

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 and Switzerland

Switzerland

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 for three years, and now lives in Sofia, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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. He is the author of books such as Jukebox, Not a Thing Anywhere, Don't Wake the Somnambulist, Your Name is Woman and A Waiter in the Boyana Residence. His award-winning novel, The Executioner

The Executioner (Kisyov novel)

The Executioner is a crime novel by Bulgarian novelist Stefan Kisyov, about the killing of Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov. It was published in 2003 and is the winner of the Vick Foundation's "Best Novel of 2004".-Plot summary:...

 was published in 2003.
Stefan Kisyov lives in Prague

Prague

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Stefan Kisyov's novels

• Juke-box (1996)
• Nothing Anywhere (2000)
• Don't Wake Up the Sleepwalker (2000)
• The Executioner
  The Executioner (Kisyov novel)
  The Executioner is a crime novel by Bulgarian novelist Stefan Kisyov, about the killing of Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov. It was published in 2003 and is the winner of the Vick Foundation's "Best Novel of 2004".-Plot summary:...
  
   , winner of the Vick Foundation
  Vick Foundation
  The Vick Foundation was established by Edward Vick in February 2004 to award an annual prize for best Bulgarian novel. Vick's initiative was acclaimed by those who saw in the prize a new opportunity for the Bulgarian literature after almost 15 years of standstill...
  
  's "Best Novel of 2004" Era (publisher)

• A Waiter at Boyana Residence (2004)
• Thy name is a woman (2007) Era (publisher)

• The Voyeur and the Tenant (2008) Era (publisher)

• The Mystery of the Knight Capulet (2011) Era (publisher)

Short stories

Kisyov has written over 100 short stories in influential newspapers and magazines and many non-fictional pieces.