Lyudmila Filipova

In November 2011, the movies based on her novels Glass Butterflies and Scarlet Gold won first place in the competition organised by the Bulgarian National Film Center.

Her most recent book, The War of the Letters, was published in 2014 and describes the creation of the Cyrillic script during the Golden Age of Simeon I the Great.

Since then, Ludmila has published more than 30 articles in Bulgarian newspapers including 24 Hours, Monitor, Novinar, and Economic Life, as well as Tema, BusinessWeek, and Marketing&Media, where she has been editor-in-chief.

The novel is based on historical fact and combines an intellectual puzzle with real-life archaeological evidence and some elements of fantasy: it describes a search for the first ancient civilization in Europe.

It addresses topics previously untouched across Bulgarian literature, including the discoveries at Lepenski Vir, the mirror-image figures of Dante and Orpheus and the secret of the "Tenth Sign" which can only be seen by a chosen few.

In Dante’s Antichthon, the main characters attempt to break the code of the Hidden City built by Gino Coppedè in Rome.

They also try to discover why the tombs in Kazanlak, Bulgaria were built for people 2.3-2.5 metres tall (in similar fashion to the Egyptian pyramids and Ancient Babylon).