Svetla Andreeva visited the Library and Information Centre “Slaveyche” with her latest book “The Visions of Mrs. Rose”. At the meeting, which took place on June 23 in the Foreign Languages Department, the Veliko Tarnovo author introduced the guests to a world where the thin line between the human and the monstrous is painfully clear. This time the focus is on the woman - not as a victim, but as a perpetrator, as a bearer of guilt that is not always apparent at first sight.
The collection contains three novellas - “An Italian Connection”, “The Visions of Madame Rosa” and “Is There Bread for Sinners”. They are united by the common theme of women who kill - not out of hatred, but out of pain, out of impasse, out of accumulated quiet rage. These are not crime stories in the classical sense, but psychological portraits in which the boundaries between the real and the imagined, between guilt and redemption, are intertwined. The narrative moves between mystery and psychological drama, in that style characteristic of Andreeva - delicate but penetrating, with a flair for language and for people's fates.
With each new book, she reminds us that literature can not only tell, but also reveal - what lies behind the words, behind the silence and behind the surface of everyday life.
Svetla Andreeva is an established author and journalist from Veliko Tarnovo. She graduated in Bulgarian Philology at the University of Veliko Tarnovo "St. She is a graduate of St. Cyril and Methodius University in Veliko Tarnovo. Her career has taken her through various professional fields - journalist in print media, radio and television, bringing with her the sensitivity of a storyteller and observer.
She made her debut in literature in the 1980s with a 1984 collection of short stories, The TV and the Canary, but over the past two decades has established herself as an author with a distinct style. Her books include Born of the Devil (2000), Jim's Goats (2007), Bread for Sinners (2013), Bus to Heaven (2016), Good, Beautiful, Evil (novel 2017), The End of the Apocalypse (2020), and the critically acclaimed Death Before Christmas (first crime-themed 2023).
Svetla Andreeva has won several literary prizes, including the Atanas Lipchev Prize (2018), a short story competition, and “Celestial Meridians” from the same year, awards from international competitions.
Her short stories have been translated into Russian, Polish and Czech.
She is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Writers and an active participant in the literary life of Veliko Tarnovo.
