
Yulia Spiridonova was born on October 30, 1972, into a family of artists. She graduated from Sofia University Kliment Ohridski and New Bulgarian University. She is married with two sons. Julia Spiridonova is the author of over 15 books for children and teenagers, and her books have been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Czech, and Farsi. She is the winner of a number of awards and has been repeatedly nominated for the world’s biggest prize for children's literature, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.