Silva Marinova was born on July 11, 1967. In 1990, she graduated with a degree in Painting from the Jules Pascin Academy in Sofia, and in 1996, she earned a degree in Book Art from the Slavic University, as well as the School of Photography at NATFA in 2001. She is currently a freelance artist. She develops her own projects in the fields of painting, applied arts, graphic techniques, comics, illustration, and children’s literature, as well as teaching and writing in the fields of prose and drama. She is a regular participant in art retreats and literary discussion groups. In 2021, she received a grant from the Culture Fund to develop a board game. In recent years, she has worked as a setmaker in the film industry and in the field of building restoration.
She has been actively involved in literature since completing a course at Ciela Publishing in 2017. She writes primarily short stories in the fantasy and science fiction genres. From 2016 to 2020, she was a regular contributor to the literary series Stories from long ago. In 2018, she participated in the writing of a radio novel broadcast on the “Hristo Botev” program. In 2019, she won first prize in the Agop Melkonyan Short story contest, organized by Gathering of Troubadours. Her stories have been published in TerraFantastica, as well as in various anthologies. Currently, some of her texts are being translated for publication in specialized publications abroad.
Selected play: ДЕБЕЛАКЪТ [FATASS], 2025
Synopsis: Set in 2125, the play follows Paul, a 240-kilogram writer, and his wife Em as they travel by space capsule to a weight-loss clinic on the Moon. During the journey, they communicate with relatives and friends on Earth, while the capsule’s artificial intelligence also intervenes in discussions about health, politics, social relationships, private desires and artistic ambitions. The journey leads the couple to confront intimate family questions and make major decisions.
MEDUSA relevance: The science-fiction setting allows the play to combine a precisely constructed social and political future with an intimate exploration of body awareness, communication, grief and loss. It questions the additional demands society places on individuals and the limits of intervention into bodies and private life, making it relevant to audiences across different cultural contexts.