Svetlana Nikolaeva Komogorova has been working as a professional translator of the English and Russian since 1995. She was the Bulgarian nominee in 2004 and 2006 for Best Translator in the Eurocons. In 2010, her translation of Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts won the Krastan Dyankov Special Award. Komogorova also works in film translation and has been one of the main translators of the Sofia International Film Festival since its first edition in 1997.