Bulgaria. Born in Bulgaria, Elitza Gueorguieva arrived in France at the age of 18, where she studied film. She then worked as an assistant before moving on to directing. She is the author of several autobiographical novels, acclaimed for their accuracy and humor. In Les cosmonautes ne font que passer, her first novel published in 2016, she recounts her childhood dream of becoming a cosmonaut like Yuri Gagarin, the idol of the entire Communist bloc. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 turned that dream on its head.