Short presentation of the writer Ludmila Filipova and her first four novels
Ludmila Filipova was born on April 10, 1977. She graduated from the University of National and World Economy . Sofia, with high honors, and was conferred Bachelor Degree in 2000. She is to graduate from the City University, MBA Degree in General Management. Her interest in arts sent her to the movie acting at the age of five where she played a small part in DIMITAR PETROV.S children.s classic .A dog in a drawer.. In 1985 she participated in the adventurous saga under BOGOMIL RAINOV .Good blood doesn.t tell. directed by NEDELCHO CHERNEV and then in .A Husband is Looked for Mom., with director MARIANA BIOLCHEVA. Ludmila Filipova worked as a marketing director in the German software giant SAP Bulgaria, a head of the office at the NOVE HOLDING Co., managing director of Desiderata Agency, an editor . in-chief of Marketing&Media, and a commercial director of a company for distribution of medical equipment MEDIMAG-MS. Ludmila Filipova took also part in the organizational committee of the New Time Party, but for the time being she does not belong to any party. Ludmila is the author of scores of articles in several of the most popular Bulgarian newspapers and magazines as Business Week Bulgaria, 24 Hours, Novinar and others.
The Anomaly
The most terrifying prophecies come true because of the most extreme human ambitions
The Anomaly
The Anomaly is a novel inspired by real events and people who have changed our world, and by a legend jealously guarded for ten centuries by a family that has left its mark on the history of Europe and the Vatican. A jarring story about the unexpected paradoxes and twists in life and the reality we live in. About the meaning of love, and the power of thoughts. About the consequences of humanity’s struggle to become gods and about a secret prophecy that has been worrying and inspiring people for 2,000 years – including religions and great scholars. The action takes place in Rome, the Vatican, Cambridge, Washington, D.C. and in the Eterneum.
Dante’s Antichthon begins in Europe’s largest cave complex, the Grotte di Frassasi, where the lifeless body of a woman has been tossed ashore by the underground currents of the Sentino River. For centuries, legends have hinted that the Italian cave was the very place where Dante Alighieri set out for the underworld to find his deceased beloved, Beatrice.
THE PARCHMENT MAZE (2009) is a historical novel in which each scene is based on actual historical fact and an extant artifact. The book was announced to be the bestseller for Bulgaria for 2009. The movie option rights are sold to Prosperitas Entertaiment,Inc, Miami. The New York Times recently published sensational new discoveries about an ancient Balkan culture that mysteriously disappeared. The Times got a few things wrong, however, when it reported that no one knows what these people called themselves or why they vanished. The best-selling Bulgarian novelist Ludmila Filipova has a name for them – the Meandrites – and an intriguing theory about their disappearance.
GLASS BUTTERFLIES (February 2008) is the third novel of Ludmila Filipova. It was already nominated for the second selection on the European literary contest “Prix du Livre Europeen 2008”. And it is the only foreign novel nominated for the American literary award “Hidden River 2009”. Moreover, the novel was nominated for the second selection on the Bulgarian literary contest “Novel of the year 2009”.
Ludmila Filipova - Woman of the year together with the candidate for president Meglena Kuneva
The bestowed prizes are in 12 general categories. The writer Ludmila Filipova is awarded as TheWoman of the year 2011 in the category "Culture and Art, Meglena Kuneva for "Politics". The awards were won among 60 nominated.
Ludmila Filipova is telling about the Orpheus Amulet in a National Geographic movie
The British TV WAG arrived in Bulgaria to shoote a documentary movie for National Geographic with the participation of the Bulgarian writer Ludmila Filipova.
The TV team started its journey in Bulgaria following the steps of Ludmila's novel "The Parchment Maze".
Filming is made in Trigrad, Kurdjali, Perperikon, Sofia, Varna, Tessaloniki - Greece, where most of the events in the novel are happening.
After 6 republishings and the following sold out circulation, the novel Anatomy of Ilusions is republished again, this time with few surprises. The story has extension, for which the readers are waiting for years. The text was also edited by the author with some minor changes, which are bringing it closer to the movie script,
wwhich at the moment is under adaptation for the novel, as well as for its first original unpublished copy.