Talking Literary Legends

Dear Reader,

If you are one of those explorers who love reading books, then you are just like us! We are glad to share some information about the writers which we have found as influential not only for you, but for the whole world!
We enjoy reading books written by Bulgarian and English-speaking authors. We believe that reading is a great way to explore the world and immerse yourself in a different world close to your own. Reading might be extremely fun and educational.
In this e-book, we have picked Bulgarian and English-speaking writers which we believe are worth reading. We are sure that no matter what your preferred genre is, you will fall in love with at least one of the writers and their books!!!
Enjoy reading!

INTRODUCTION

’A book is a dream you hold in your hand.’’ Neil Gaiman

This book is created in order to become familiar with famous literary influential figures. They produced some of the best literature in the world. Their work is still enjoyed by people of all ages around the world and it continues to influence modern day-writers and filmmakers.
They will revive just for a while!

Elisaveta Bagryana

I was born on the 16 April 1893 in Sofia. My real name is Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva. I was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet. My first verses were written while I was living with my family in Veliko Tarnovo from 1907 to 1908. Later I was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. My first poems are ”Why’’ and ’’Night Song’’. They were published in 1915 in the magazine ’’Contemporary Thought”. With the arrival of my first book, ’’ The Eternal and the Holy“, I earned the confirmation of my peers. I also started writing children’s stories. My poems are straightforward, sensitive and serious, as in ’’The Well”, a fable-like piece relating as well she dug when a little girl to the wellspring of poetry in her soul.

Hristo Botev

I was born on January 6, 1848 in Kalofer, Bulgaria. My father’s name was Botyo Petkov and my mother’s name was Ivanka Boteva. My father was a teacher. I had a wife, called Veneta and a daughter - Ivanka. In 1863 I went to study in Odesus. Then I fought for the liberation movement of Bulgaria and freedom of the Bulgarian people. I wrote a lot of poems, songs, articles and newspapers. Some of my poems are for my mother or my brother, others are prayers. They reflect the way a lot of poor people in Bulgaria felt at that time.
Apart from my poetry I am famous for my revolutionary spirit. I perished on the Vola peak at the age of 28 on the 1st of June 1876.

Ivan Vazov

I was born on 9 July 1850 in Sopot. My father was a businessman and my brothers were soldiers. I was a writer and a minister of culture in Bulgaria. I wrote a lot of poems for Bulgarian volunteers and for Bulgaria - “Epic of the forgotten” is my favourite one. I also love ‘The Bulgarian language’. I think that the most influential of my novels is ‘Under the yoke’(Pod igoto). I reflected two historical epochs - the Revival & post-liberation Bulgaria. I was named as a Patriarch of the Bulgarian literature.

I was born 13 January 1878 in Chirpan. My real name is Peyo Totev Kracholov. I was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet and a prominent member of the "Misal" literary and cultural group. Most of my poems are romantic and dedicated to the two women in my life - Mina Todorova and Lora Karavelova. My first (and greatest) love Mina died from tuberculosis, which greatly saddened me. She was buried in the cemetery of Boulogne Billancourt.Later on I met Lora, the daughter of the statesman Petko Karavelov. We were married, and the letters correspondence between us was considered as evidence of our ardent and vivid love, and thus was different from the relationship which I had with Mina Todorova. In 1913, Lora shot herself and I tried to commit suicide. The bullet went through my temporal bone, which left me blind. In despair over the trial provoked by Lora's death and the rumour that I had killed her, I took a poison and then shot myself in the autumn, on 29 October 1914 at the age of 36. My works are To Lora, Two nice eyes...

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