Шуменски университет „Епископ Константин Преславски” Катедра по Журналистика и масови комуникации 2025 ============================= Abstract: The article presents a forgotten Bulgarian fiction writer and translator who, in the late 1990s, received a well-deserved nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is Sevda Kostova, and her novel “Penelopeida” and all the historical and biographical circumstances surrounding its creation and reception are at the center of research attention. Sevda Kostova demonstrates her fiction talent in the search for decidedly non-Bulgarian plots, her inspiration comes from ancient myths, biblical tales, Germanic sagas and Western European cultural motifs, the interpretation of which enriches Bulgarian literature with works such as “Penelopeida”, “No Place in the World. A Novel of Tristan and Isolde”, “The Children of Wotan”, “The Annunciation of Mariam. A Novel of Jesus”, etc. The novel "Penelopeida" would do honor to any European literature, and its feminist spirit actually affirms an unfulfilled conservative utopia of human existence.
Key words: fiction writer, Nobel Prize, novel, feminism, conservative utopia, ancient myths
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