Blaga Dimitrova

Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova ( Bulgarian Блага Димитрова; born January 2, 1922 in Byala Slatina, Bulgaria; † 2 May 2003 in Sofia) was a Bulgarian writer, poet, translator and politician.

Life

Blaga Dimitrova grew up in Veliko Tarnovo and then studied Slavic Studies, Sofia. After her graduation in 1945 she received her doctorate in Leningrad and Moscow. In Bulgaria, it was particularly as a translator from ancient Greek, Polish, Russian, Swedish, German and Vietnamese produced, wrote literary criticism and essays, and has worked as an editor for Youth books. In the time of the Vietnam War, she traveled five times to Vietnam and finally adopted a Vietnamese girl. She was married to the literary critic Jordan Wassilew.

At the end of the communist era in Bulgaria, she founded together with other 1987, the Committee for Environmental Protection in Russian and the club for Democracy, which later became the opposition alliance emerged Union of Democratic Forces. 1992-93 she was finally Vice President of Bulgaria, but stepped out of disappointment with the policy back. Blaga Dimitrova was highly regarded because of their literary works, but also because of their social commitment, in Bulgaria. She was chairman of Raina Kabaiwanska Foundation for orphans and received numerous literary prizes, including the Grand Prize of the European Writers' Association The Cog ( 2001).

Works

• До утре, poems, 1959
• Светът в шепа, poems, 1962
• Обратно време, poems, 1965
• Пътуване към себе си, novel 1965
• Осъдени на любов. poems 1967
• Отклонение, novel 1967 Experiment with love. Translation by Barbara Sparing, Universitas, Berlin 1967.
• Under the title: Raising Helen. From Bulgarian by Barbara Antkowiak, publishing folk and world, Berlin 1980. Film: Bulgaria 1967

• Том 1 Ранни стихове, 2003; ISBN 954-90735-6-4
• Том 2 Лирика и поеми, 2003; ISBN 954-90735-8-0
• Том 3 Пътуване към себе си, 2003; ISBN 954-90735-9-9
• Том 4 Отклонение, 2004; ISBN 954-9310-03-5
• Том 5 Страшния съд, 2004; ISBN 954-9310-04-3
• Том 6 Лавина, 2005; ISBN 954-9310-05-1

Choice editions of their works in German translation

• Sentenced to love. Selected poems. Edition Xylos, Gelsenkirchen 1981, ISBN 3-921812-21-6.
• Ars poetica. Poems. Tentamen, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-921625-60-2.
• Window for hope. Poems. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-353-00020-8.
• Scars. Poems from forty years and two essays. Avlos -Verlag, Sankt Augustin, 1999, ISBN 3-929634-26-0 ( Bulgarian Library, Vol 3).