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Famous Bulgarian Poets - Famous Poets from Bulgaria

The Bulgarian famous poets section is an educational source of information and inspiration featuring reknown Bulgarian poets. Here you will find famous Bulgarian Poets of our time and times past. Please let us know if we are missing a well-known Bulgarian poet and we'll add him or her.

 
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Botev, Hristo

Hristo Botev (Bulgarian: , also transliterated as Hristo Botyov) (January 6, 1848 – June 1, 1876), born Hristo Botyov Petkov (Bulgarian: ), was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.. Bulgarian poet and revolutionary
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Bursa, Andrzej

Andrzej Bursa (March 21, 1932 – November 15, 1957) was a Polish poet and writer. Born in Kraków, he studied journalism, then Bulgarian at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1954–1957 Bursa worked as a journalist and reporter for the Kraków newspaper Dziennik Polski. Many of his contemporaries attributed his early death at the age of 25 to suicide, while the true cause of it was a congenital heart disease.. Polish poet and writer
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Dimitrova, Blaga

Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova (Bulgarian: ) (2 January 1922 Byala Slatina – 2 May 2003) was a Bulgarian poetess and Vice President of Bulgaria from 1992 until 1993.. Bulgarian poet and Vice President
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Fotev, Hristo

Hristo Botev (Bulgarian: , also transliterated as Hristo Botyov) (January 6, 1848 – June 1, 1876), born Hristo Botyov Petkov (Bulgarian: ), was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.. Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary
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Slaveykov, Pencho

Pencho Petkov Slaveykov (Bulgarian: ) (27 April 1866 – 10 June 1912) was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal ("Thought") circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov.. Bulgarian poet
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Slaveykov, Petko

Petko Rachov Slaveykov (Bulgarian: ) (17 November 1827 - 1 July 1895) was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.. Bulgarian poet publicist folklorist
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Smirnenski, Hristo

Hristo Smirnenski (Bulgarian: ), born as Hristo Izmirliev, (September 29, 1898 - June 18, 1923) was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, (today Kilkis, Greece), which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home. He was a free, witty and playful child with a vivid imagination and keen sense of humour. He wrote songs, stories about birds and animals and rhyming jokes.. Bulgarian poet and writer
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Vazov, Ivan

Ivan Minchov Vazov (Bulgarian: ) (June 27, 1850 - September 22, 1921) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright. He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria (then part of the Ottoman Empire).. Bulgarian poet novelist and playwright
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Yavorov, Peyo

Peyo Yavorov (Bulgarian: (.) ; born Peyo Totev Kracholov, ; January 1, 1878–October 17, 1914) was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet. He was considered to be one of the finest poetic talents in the fin de siècle Kingdom of Bulgaria. Yavorov was a prominent member of the Misal group. His life and work are closely connected with the liberation movement Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in Macedonia. He was also a supporter of the Armenian Independence Movement, and wrote a number of poems about Armenians.. Bulgarian Symbolist poet