Valentin Fortunov

Who is Valentin Fortunov?

Valentin Fortunov is Bulgarian writer, publisher and journalist born on August 15, 1957.

Valentin Fortunov lives in Burgas on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.

As a journalist he watched and reported on the collapse of the Communist regime in Bulgaria. He also conducted and published a famous and unprecedented book from the last Bulgarian Communist president, Todor Zhivkov, shortly after his overthrow.

In 1990 he founded Bulgaria’s first private publishing company and translated and published the works of many Western writers including John le Carré, Jeffrey Archer, Rex Stout, Dominick Dunne, Harold Robbins and others. He also published a wide range of business books and introduced direct marketing to post-Communist Bulgaria. He is General Editor of Dolphin’s Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias series including over 30 hardcover volumes in all aspects of business and commercial law. Trud Publishing House releases in September 2008 the new World Business Encyclopaedia, grand volume, whose General Editor is Valentin Fortunov. He published under the penname Maximillian Strugatzky the first book of the multivolume International History of the Serial Killers – American Killers.