Party Headquarters

Winner of the 2014 Contemporary Bulgarian Novelist Award co-sponsored by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and the America for Bulgaria Foundation. First novel of Tenev's to be published in English despite Angela Rodel winning a PEN Michael Henry Heim Translation Grant for her work on his short story collection, Holy Light. Party Headquarters also won the Vick Foundation Award for novel of the year—the most prestigious award for Bulgarian literature. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film Alienation (Otchuzhdenie), which was an Official Selection of Venice Days and won four international awards.