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Tzvetan Todorov (Bulgarian: Цветан Тодоров) (born on March 1, 1939 in Sofia) is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory.

Todorov has published a total of 21 books, including The Poetics of Prose (1971), Introduction to Poetics (1981), The Conquest of America (1982), Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle (1984), Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps (1991), On Human Diversity (1993), Hope and Memory (2000), and Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism (2002). Todorov's historical interests have focused on such crucial issues as the conquest of The Americas and the Nazi and Stalinist concentration camps.

Todorov has been a visiting professor at several universities, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley.

His honors have included the Bronze Medal of the CNRS, the Charles Lévêque Prize of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and the first Maugean Prize of the Académie Française; he also is an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Todorov lives in Paris with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children.

• Introduction à la littérature fantastique (1970), translated as The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
• (French)"'L'esprit des Lumières a encore beaucoup à faire dans le monde d'aujourd'hui' ('The Spirit of the Enlightenment still has a lot to do in today's world')", Le Monde, March 4, 2006.
• "'In search for lost crime: Tribunals, apologies, reparations, and the search for justice.'", The New Republic, January 26, 2001.

• Conquest of America : the question of the other (1984), translated from the French by Richard Howard.
• Facing the extreme : moral life in the concentration camps (2000), translated by Arthur Denner and Abigail Pollack.
• Fragility of goodness : why Bulgaria's Jews survived the Holocaust (2001), a collection of texts with commentary by Tzvetan Todorov.
• French tragedy : scenes of civil war, summer 1944 (1996), translated by Mary Byrd Kelly ; translation edited and annotated by Richard J. Golsan.
• Hope and memory : lessons from the twentieth century (2003), translated by David Belos.
• Imperfect garden : the legacy of humanism (2002), translated by Carol Cosman.
• Life in common : an essay in general anthropology (2001), translated by Katherine Golsan and Lucy Golsan ; with a new afterword by the author.
• Mikhail Bakhtin : the dialogical principle (1984), translated by Wlad Godzich.
• New world disorder : reflections of a European (2005), preface by Stanley Hoffmann ; translated by Andrew Brown.
• On human diversity : nationalism, racism, and exoticism in French thought (1993), translated by Catherine Porter.
• Voices from the Gulag : life and death in communist Bulgaria (1999), Tzvetan Todorov (ed.) ; translated by Robert Zaretsky.

• Fantastic
• Genre studies