Plamen Antov is a doctor of science and a professor at the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications on a wide range of thematic fields and several monographic studies: Yavorov-Botev: Modernism and Myth. The Atavistic Memory of Language (2009), The Poetry of the 1990s. Bulgarian and Postmodern (2010), Bulgarian Postmodernism of XXI-XIX Centuries. Towards the Philosophy of Bulgarian Literature (2016), as well as the literary-philosophical comparative research works Emilian Stanev's Animalistic Prose. Biopolitical and Philosophical Problems (Vol. 1, 2019) and Before the Unattainable: Emilian Stanev and Martin Heidegger (Vol. 2, 2021). His most recent book is 'To Chicago and Back' Beyond the Travelogue. To the Genealogy of Bai Ganyu (2021).
As the head of the scientific project "Literature and Geography", he is the author of the collections Our Americas 1: Latin America and Bulgarian Literature, Bulgarian Traces in Latin America (2015), Our Americas 2: The USA as a Metaphor of Modernity. Bulgarian-American Reflections (XX–XXI Centuries) (2017, in collective) and Magic Realism (2019).
Poet and writer, author of books of poetry, short stories, fragments, plays; winner of awards for poetry and drama.