Emil Andreev

Emil Andreev (Bulgarian: Емил Андреев) (born 1 September 1956, Lom, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian author, playwright, and novelist. Emil Andreev graduated in English Language Studies from the Veliko Tarnovo University. He has worked as a teacher, newspaper editor and lecturer in English at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski".

Andreev has won several awards for his writing, including the Vick and Helikon prizes for fiction. He is an author of the plays "Treasure-hunters", "The Baby" and the comedy "To Kill a Prime Minister" which were played on the scene of the Theatre of Satire, Sofia. His works have been translated including into English, German, Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Serbian.

His novel "The Glass River" has been filmed with an international cast and has been featured on screen in Bulgaria.