Alek Popov was born in Sofia in 1966. He graduated in philology from Sofia University and was also educated in the USA. He is the author of collections of stories, essays, novels and plays and is one of the most widely read and translated contemporary Bulgarian authors.
He is the winner of the “Graviton” award for fantasy, the “Pavel Vežinov” award for crime story, the “Raško Sugarev” award for the best prose book in 2002, the award from the magazine Clouds, in which Mission London was published in English, as well as the “Ivan Radoev” National Award for Dramaturgy.
The sudden arrival of a new ambassador at the Bulgarian Embassy in London causes the employees to fear that they may soon be dismissed and sent back to their homeland. Through a series of unusual and comical everyday situations in which the main characters find themselves, Popov writes, on the one hand, sharp satire, and on the other, a novel that is rightly proclaimed the funniest book in contemporary Bulgarian literature.
" Mission London is not only an extremely entertaining read, but also a picture of the Balkan reality at the beginning of the 21st century."
Ulrich M. Schmid