title: Khristo Poshtakov
text: # Khristo Poshtakov
  
  Khristo Poshtakov (Bulgarian: Христо Пощаков) (b. September 22, 1944) is a Bulgarian short story author and novelist.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Khristo Poshtakov was born in Pavlikeni, a town in the northern central part of Bulgaria.
  
  In 1974, he graduated from the Technical University of Sofia as a mechanical engineer. His later work occupations include acting as a technical advisor at the Ministry of Food Industry in Havana, Cuba, from 1979 till 1984; director of a holding company and later a bus company in Bulgaria; deputy-chairman of the Board of Directors of Balkan Pres AD Ltd. in Sofia.
  
  Up to 1998, Poshtakov worked as a translator for the Sara Translation House in Sofia. He retired officially in 2008, but has kept producing translations and writing his own works.
  
  He was the first chairman of the Bulgarian Fantastika Foundation, representing Bulgarian science fiction fandom worldwide.
  
  