Nikolai Lachezarov GROZDINSKI (b. 1973, Sofia) is part-time lecturer in Tibetan language, history, and culture at the New Bulgarian University. He holds the diploma in musical composition from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. His collection of short stories Lives of Idle Men and Lost Mystics , a bestseller, received a grant for a first publication from the Open Society Book Program in 2000; a novel, To Have a Nap on the Lap of the Great Sameness is in process of publication. The State Department is supporting his participation in the program.