“Just reading the first six pages of the Glass River, you’d not help getting through it,” claims Emil Andreev, the novelist awarded Best Novel Award 2005 of the Vick Foundation. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (SNA)
The novel of Emil Andreev has unanimously swept the top approval of both jury and audience to be the winner of this year's Best Novel Award.
Andreev's Glass River received the second prize given out by the Vick Foundation in Bulgaria.
Emil Andreev grabbed the award of BGN 10,000 and the English translation of his novel in contest with five other short-listed novelists.
The contest was initiated by Edward Vick, founder of the EVS Company, one of Europe's leading translation companies, which also has an office in Bulgaria.
He has established the Vick Foundation in 2004, which inaugurated the prize "Bulgarian Novel of the Year."