Lyudmila Filipova

Lyudmila Orlinova Filipova (Bulgarian: Людмила Орлинова Филипова) (born April 10, 1977) 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 Lyudmila Filipova was born on 10 April 1977. She is the granddaughter of the former Bulgarian Prime Minister, Grisha Filipov. She graduated from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia with high honors and received a bachelor's degree in 2000. Later, she graduated from City University and received an MBA degree in General Management. Filipova went on to specialise in creative writing at Oxford University in 2009. Later, she worked as a marketing director at a German software company, SAP Bulgaria, where she was the managing director of Desiderata Advertising Agency as well as editor-in-chief of the magazine Marketing&Media. She has also been commercial director of MEDIMAG-MS, a medical equipment company.Filipova is well known to the Bulgarian people as a television reporter for two Bulgarian television channels, 7 DAYS and Triada (a local partner of CNN). Since then, Ludmila has published more than 30 articles in Bulgarian newspapers including 24 Hours, Monitor, Novinar, and Economic Life, as well as Tema, BusinessWeek, and Marketing&Media, where she has been editor-in-chief. In 2004, Filipova became a member of the liberal political party Novoto Vreme; in December 2011, she was awarded the Woman of the Year award in the Culture and Art category.