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.