Ilija Trojanow

is a Bulgarian-German writer, translator and publisher. Since 2002 Ilija Trojanow has been member of the PEN centre of the Federal Republic of Germany. Among other awards he received the Bertelsmann Literature Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in Klagenfurt in 1995, the Marburg Literature Prize in 1996, the Thomas Valentin Prize in 1997, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 2000 and the Leipzig Book Fair in the category of fiction for his novel "Der Weltensammler" (The Collector of Worlds) in 2006.