25 Writers from Sofia

Elena Alexieva is a Bulgarian writer.

Elisaveta Bagryana, born Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva, was a Bulgarian poet who wrote her first verses while living with her family in Veliko Tarnovo in 1907–08. She, along with Dora Gabe (1886–1983), is considered one of the "first ladies of Bulgarian women's literature". She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Iana Boukova is a Bulgarian poet, novelist, essayist and translator. Considered one of the most significant Bulgarian authors of the 21st century.

Michael (Michel) Confino (1926–2010) was a historian of 18th and 19th century Russia.

Lyuben Lyubenov Dilov Jr., also known as Luben Dilov Jr. and Ljuben Dilov Jr., is a Bulgarian writer, journalist, film director and politician.

Lyudmila Orlinova Filipova is a Bulgarian novelist and journalist. Since 2006, Filipova has written seven novels, all of which have become best-sellers. In October 2011, a television team from National Geographic filmed a documentary based on the discoveries described in her novel "The Parchment Maze". 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. It is considered by many critics a unique story about one of the most significant developments in the history of Bulgaria

Elena Georgieva was a Bulgarian linguist whose work on Bulgarian syntax revolutionized the way that the Bulgarian language was studied by proposing that the word order was determined by the functional perspective of the subject and its theme.

Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. One of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989, he has four poetry books awarded with national literary prizes. First of them, Lapidarium (1992), won the National Debut Prize. Volumes of his selected poetry came out in German, Portuguese, Czech, Macedonian.

Nikolai Grozni, is a multilingual Bulgarian-American novelist, short-story writer and musician.

Diana Ivanova is a Bulgarian journalist, author and documentary filmmaker. In her professional work she is interested in intercultural dialogue between people in Bulgaria and other countries, preferably Germany. As cultural manager and curator, she is committed to international understanding and cultural exchange and organizes every year in northwestern Bulgaria an international cultural festival. As a group analyst in Sofia and Bonn she deals with traumas that have been suffered due to the political situation in both countries in the time before the political change in Europe - in Germany primarily by citizens of the GDR.

Shlomo Kalo was a writer and microbiologist. He published approximately 80 fiction and nonfiction books in Hebrew, some of which are published in translation internationally.

Kapka Kassabova is a poet and writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. Her mother tongue is Bulgarian, but she writes in English.

Ventseslav Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, aphorist and translator of German and English literature.

Ruzha Lazarova is a Bulgarian French language writer who currently lives in Paris.

Georgi Ivanov Markov was a Bulgarian dissident writer.

Major General Yordan Sergiev Milanov, was a retired Major General of the Bulgarian Air Force. He was a recognized author, Bulgarian Aviation and Aerospace Doctor of Science, and a Bulgarian Air Force pilot. With over 60 publications regarding Air- and Space- Force history, tactics, and geopolitical issues, Maj. Gen. Milanov was one of Bulgaria's most prolific 20th century military aviation leaders. Maj. Gen. Milanov died of natural causes in the early morning hours of June 27, 2020 in his home in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Aleksandra Mihailova Monedzhikova was a Bulgarian geographer, historian, writer and teacher.

Valeri Petrov, was a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin.

Ivan Sarailiev was a Bulgarian philosopher related to the school of pragmatism.; he finished his major book Pragmatism in 1938 quoting from Charles Sanders Peirce’s Collected Papers. Sarailiev was the first pragmatist in Eastern Europe and also a "very early pragmatist". He also introduced the idea of implied reader in his reception theory as early as in Savremennata nauka y religiata (1931).

Georgi Stoev was a Bulgarian writer and former Bulgarian mafia mobster.

Edvin Sugarev, in Sofia, is a Bulgarian poet and politician. He graduated from Sofia University in 1979. He was one of the founders of the first democratic movement in Bulgaria, "Ecoglasnost" and later appointed ambassador to India and Mongolia. He is a former member of the national coordination committee of the Union of Democratic Forces.

Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory, intellectual history and culture theory.

Justine Toms is a Bulgarian entrepreneur, university lecturer and author.

Ilija Trojanow is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher.

Venelin Tsachevsky is a Bulgarian scholar, economist, historian, political researcher and diplomat.