Snezhana Dimitrova, one of the five Bulgarian nurses who spent more than eight years in a Libyan jail accused of deliberately infecting children with HIV, will launch at the beginning of the week a book describing her ordeal.

The book was released in French on October 18, under the title "Le Cauchemar". In Bulgaria it will be published in instalments on the pages of Standard daily, titled "In Qaddafi's cell".

"I wrote the book for fifteen days while I was in Paris," Snezhana told Darik radio.

She is the second of the five nurses to recount the events from their protracted imprisonment in Libya, the torture and the trials, in a book.

At the beginning of November Kristiyana Valcheva launched her biography, ghost-written by Bulgarian reporter Mirolyuba Benatova and Marie-Therese Cuny, a French journalist who focuses on women's issues.

"Eight years as Qaddafi's hostage" proved a huge success on the Bulgarian market and was re-issued in another 9,000 copies after the initial batch of 15,000 was devoured for days.

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