Sonya Todorova (b. 1979 in Sofia, Bulgaria) graduated from the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia and received a PhD in Advanced Geodesy from the Vienna University of Technology. Her first book, A Concise and Practical Guide to Survival for Families with Small Children and Others in Sofia (Colibri, 2015), a humorous, yet sharp social study of present-day life in her hometown, was nominated for the Outstanding Cultural Achievement Award of Sofia Municipality. Her debut novel, Adi Landau’s Pearls (Colibri, 2016) was nominated for the 2016 Helikon Award for New Bulgarian Prose and shortlisted for the 2016 Peroto Award for Contribution to the Bulgarian Literary Context. She has a collection of short stories forthcoming in 2018.