Lyudmila Filipova

Presented by: Viktoria Atanasova 11a class №4

 Introduction
• Ludmila Filipova is one of the Bulgaria’s and
Balkan’s most popular contemporary authors.
• Her books are also some of the most sellable and
loved for a whole century, according to the
national ratings (among six other classic authors)
and already included into the necessary list of
books for the Bulgarian schools by the Bulgarian
Ministry of Education and Science.
 Biography
• Lyudmila Filipova was born on 10 April 1977.
• She is the granddaughter of the former Bulgarian Prime Minister,
Grisha Filipov.
• She graduated from the University of National and World Economy
in Sofia with high honors and received a bachelor's degree in 2000.
Later, she graduated from City University and received an MBA
degree in General Management.
• Filipova went on to specialise in creative writing at Oxford
University in 2009. Later, she worked as a marketing director at a
German software company, SAP Bulgaria, where she was the
managing director of Desiderata Advertising Agency as well as
editor-in-chief of the magazine Marketing&Media.
• She has also been commercial director of MEDIMAG-MS, a
medical equipment company.
• Filipova is well known to the Bulgarian people as a television reporter for two
Bulgarian television channels, 7 DAYS and Triada (a local partner of CNN).
• Since then, Ludmila has published more than 30 articles in Bulgarian
newspapers including 24 Hours, Monitor, Novinar, and Economic Life, as well
as Tema, BusinessWeek, and Marketing&Media, where she has been editor-in-
chief. In 2004, Filipova became a member of the liberal political party Novoto
Vreme;
• In December 2011, she was awarded the Woman of the Year award in the
Culture and Art category.
Filipova has already 12 published novels and all of them became bestsellers
in the region and in Amazon with thousands sold copies. Translated in 6
languages. The books of Ludmila are based on/or inspired by real stories
and facts. She travels worldwide in order to gather the necessary
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information, make interviews and hard papers analysis researches.

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 Filmography
Ludmila Filipova has been participating 04 as an actor in several
children’s movies, most popular from which are:
• "Kuche v chekmedje" 1982 (Dog in a drawer) - directed by Dimiter
Petrov;
• "Deniat si lichi po zaranta" ( The day is recognizable by the
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morning) 1984: directed by Nedelcho 05
Chernev;
• "Tursi se suprug za mama" ( Husband for Mom is needed) –
directed by Mariana Evstatieva – Biolcheva;
• "The path of human civilization" - Traces in the sand, 2010,
director Stilian Ivanov.
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 Dante’s Antichthon
Plot
Dante’s Antichthon begins in Europe’s largest cave complex, the
Grotte di Frassasi, where the lifeless body of a woman has been
tossed ashore by the underground currents of the Sentino River.
For centuries, legends have hinted that the Italian cave was the
very place where Dante Alighieri set out for the underworld to
find his deceased beloved, Beatrice. After a long disappearance,
he returned to write his great work the Divine Comedy. However,
Dante’s story strongly recalls that of Orpheus, who followed his
Eurydice into the Devil’s Throat Cave in the Rhodope Mountains
on the Balkan Peninsula, eventually arriving at the Lower
Kingdom.
 At the same time, a strange earthquake rocks Belgrade, which
causes the mysterious, millennia-old stone figures found in
Lepenski Vir to line up in the form of a hexagram for the first
time since they were unearthed in the 1960s.

A military jeep mercilessly chases a pale creature through the

dense forest of the Italian province of Ancona, when ate same
time the eight-pointed star in the center of St. Peter’s Square in
Rome cracks in half.

An Oxford professor discovers the key to deciphering the 16th

century occultist Dr. John Dee’s Holy Guardian Angel Tablet,
which had stumped scholars for five centuries …
 Unfamiliar words
● Contemporary – съвременен
● Sellable – продаван
● Novel – роман
● Lifeless – безжизнен
● To toss – да хвърля
● Mercilessly – безмилостно
● Deciphering – дешифриране, разчитане
● To stump – да се спъна
● Scholar - учен
 Questions
1. Where does Dante’s Antichthon begin?
2. What is the name of the cave complex where the
lifeless body of a woman has been found?
3. Why is the Italian cave associated with Dante
Alighieri?
4. Who did Dante Alighieri set out to find in the
underworld?
5. What is the name of Dante’s great work?
6. Where are the Rhodope Mountains located?
7. Who discovers the key to deciphering the Holy
Guardian Angel Tablet?
Thank you for
your attention!