# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/svetoslav-slavchev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:42:03.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/svetoslav-slavchev"
name: "Svetoslav Slavchev"
slug: "svetoslav-slavchev"
description: "Svetoslav Donchev Slavchev was a popular Bulgarian science fiction and mystery writer, famous also as a journalist. His best known science fiction works include the short novel The Fortress of the Immortal and the short story collections A Trail for Vega-Orion and A Sword with Rubbies. His most famous crime novels are: Nine, the Number of the Cobra and The Name of Death is Centaur. As the second editor of the widely read magazine Cosmos he invented and started publishing the riddle-like stories of the now famous police inspector Strezov. In the last years of his life he concentrated on this genre, as well as on this personage and there were two anthologies of his stories about Strezov published respectively in 2002 and 2010. His books are translated into Russian, German, Czech, Polish, Japanese etc. His awards include the prestigious Bulgarian national science fiction prize Graviton (2000) for his whole contribution to the genre. In 2018, an anthology of the best stories with inspector Strezov was published to commemorate the 50th anniversary from the character's creation, this time with the illustrations of the author's friend Alexander Vachkov."
tagline: "Bulgarian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Svetoslav_Slavchev.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1926-12-18"
deathDate: "2016-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.801836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "سویٹوسلاو سلاوچیف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سڤيتوسلاڤ سلاڤتشيڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2"
    title: "Светослав Славчев"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetoslav_Don%C4%8Dev_Slav%C4%8Dev"
    title: "Svetoslav Dončev Slavčev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swetoslaw_Slawtschew"
    title: "Swetoslaw Slawtschew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetoslav_Slavchev"
    title: "Svetoslav Slavchev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetoslav_Slavchev"
    title: "Svetoslav Slavchev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2"
    title: "Славчев, Светослав"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19918055"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump