Emilian Stanev
Emilian Stanev Емилиян Станев was the pseudonym Nikola Stoyanov Stanev (Никола Стоянов Станев), a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer. Also spelled as Emiliian Stanev or Emiliyan Stanev.
Stanev was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1907 and spent his childhood in Tarnovo and Elena, where he long lived with his family. From an early age, his father would take him to his hunting outings in the open, which influenced Stanev's later work, where nature is often described. In 1928, he finished the Elena high school as a private student and moved to Sofia, where he studied painting under Tseno Todorov. In the 1930s, he enrolled in Finances and Credit in Free University of Political and Economic Sciences, (today University of National end World Economy in
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Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on March 27, 1892. A month later he was jailed for 6 months and fined for praising Pini and Ravachol. Afterwards he wrote for Sébastien Faure's journal, Libertaire, as well as for the anarchist newspaper La Renaissance. In 1898, he edited l'Anticlérical, for the Anticlerical League of France and was involved in supporting Alfred Dreyfus during the eponymous Dreyfus Affair.
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Псевдоним на българския писател и преводач Генчо Негенцов. Баща му Станчо е занаятчия и опълченец от Освободителната война – починал, когато Генчо е седем годишен. Ран Босилек има двама братя и две сестри. Всички получават висше образование. Единият му брат е д-р Христо Негенцов (1881-1953), професор по педагогика. Другият му брат е Никола Негенцов (1888-1943) - физик, метеоролог, създател на метеорологията във военно-въздушните сили (ВВС).
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BG: Блага Димитрова
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Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova (2 January 1922 – 2 May 2003) was a Bulgarian poetess and Vice President of Bulgaria from 1992 until 1993.
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Stanislav Stratiev was born in Sofia in 1941. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University.
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Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria Academy of Science's Institute for Literature. He is one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. He published the first Bulgarian graphic novel The Eternal Fly (Вечната муха).
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Ainsi tchatchent, galopent et dévorent Pico, Ana Ana et les autres.
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Although he never resided in Belgium after 1922, he remained a Belgian citizen throughout his life.
Simenon was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, capable of writing 60 to 80 pages per day. His oeuvre includes nearly 200 novels, over 150 novellas, several autobiographical works, numerous articles, and scores of pulp novels written under more than two dozen pseudonyms. Altogether, about 550 million copies of his works have been printed.
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BG: Алеко Константинов
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Aleko Ivanitsov Konstantinov, also known as Shtastlivetsa ("The Lucky Guy") is best known for his feuilletons and as the creator of the character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction.
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His latest novel WOUND(РАНА) was published 10.23.2023.
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Nikolai Haitov
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Yordan Yovkov
Йордан Стефанов Йовков участва в Балканската и Междусъюзническата война като командир на рота.
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През Първата световна война е граничен офицер край река Места, а след това става военен кореспондент от Южния до Северния фронт.
Йовков дебютира като поет. През 1902–11 г. публикува стихове (общо 31) в различни периодични издания — в. „Съзнание“, списанията „Пробуда“, „Художник“, „Ново време“, „Ново общество“и "Бисери".
Първата си белетристична творба - „Овчарова жалба“, с подзаглавие „Старопланинска легенда“ — Йовков публикува в списание „Просвета“ през 1910 г.
Годините, прекарани по фронтовете на трите войни, предопределят тематиката и персонажите в по-нататъчното му творчество. Военните си творби Йовков започва да печата от началото на 1913 г. ( -
Laura Cowan
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Ivinela Samuilova
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Ivinela's fascinating debut novel "Life Can Be a Miracle", which was ranked first in "The Most Inspiring Book" contest in 2014 in Bulgaria was recently released in English and is available on Amazon. Ivinela's novel "Where Are You Going, Pilgrim?", based on her experience of the Camino de Santiago fell in the Top 20 "Best Read Books" for the year in 2015 and was ranked second in the national competition for "The Most Inspiring Book" in 2014. The novel is not translated yet, but Ivinela's inspiring -
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Anton Donchev
Anton Donchev graduated from the University of Sofia in 1953, but soon declined a position as a judge in a regional court and started writing. His first book was published in 1961 and was followed by the world-famous Time of Parting (1964) said to be written in only 41 days. Donchev went on to write a dozen novels and about half a dozen screenplays.
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Hristo Botev
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Geo Milev
Geo Milev studied in Sofia and later in Leipzig where he was introduced to German Expressionism. His university thesis was on Richard Dehmel. Beginning in 1916 he fought in the World War I, where he was severely injured. After recuperating in Berlin he began to collaborate with the magazine Aktion. Upon his return to Bulgaria he started to publish the Bulgarian modernist magazine Везни (Scales), in Sofia. He contributed as a translator, theatre reviewer, director and editor of anthologies.
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On May 15, 1925 Geo Milev was taken to the police station for a "short interrogation" from which he never returned. His fate remained unknown for 30 years. In 1954 during the trial of General Ivan Valkov and a group of physical executioners one of them con