Galin Nikiforov (Bulgarian: Галин Никифоров) is a contemporary Bulgarian writer. He was born in 1968 and lives in Dobrich, Bulgaria. He graduated from the Technical University of Plovdiv and the University of Economics Varna. He has worked as an engineer in the industry since 1993. He is married and has a daughter. In 2011 his book Losers Summer' won the biggest literature competition in the country - "Novel of the Year". A month later his latest novel The House of Clowns won the Elias Canetti Award.