Agop Melkonyan


Agop Melkonyan was a Bulgarian writer of Armenian descent. He is best known as an author of science fiction short stories and novels. He was also a translator, journalist, editor and scholar.
Melkonyan popularized in Bulgaria recent discoveries in Physics, Astronomy and Mechanics. His literary influence spread mainly through Bulgarian periodical editions as: Orbita, Omega and Varkolak.
Melkonyan was awarded the most important Bulgarian prize for science fiction Gravition in 1991. There is a literary prize on his name and a widely popular memorial anthology was published in 2017 under the title A Machine for Stories. Melkonyan's story A Boy with Wings is included in the primary schools’ program.
His translations, mostly from Russian and Armenian, include both poetry and prose.
His works, translated into many European languages, include: the prose collections A Memory of the World, Via Dolorosa, 1987, Death in the Sea-Shell, A Turmoil for Souls and others.