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Elisaveta Bagryana (April 16, 1893 – March 23, 1991), born Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva , was a Bulgarian
Bulgarians

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 poet who wrote her first verses while living with her family in Veliko Tarnovo
Veliko Tarnovo

Veliko Tarnovo is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. Often referred to as the "City of the Tsars", Veliko Turnovo is located on the Yantra River and is famous as the historical capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, attracting many tourists with its unique architecture....
 in 1907-08. She, along with Dora Gabe (1886-1983), is considered one of the Bulgarian mothers of literature.

Bagryana taught in the village of Aftane, where she experienced rural life, from 1910 to 1911, after which she studied Slavic philology at Sofia University
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Elisaveta Bagryana (April 16, 1893 – March 23, 1991), born Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva , was a Bulgarian
Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavs people generally associated with the Republic of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian language. Emigration has resulted in Bulgarian minorities or immigrant communities in a number of other countries....
 poet who wrote her first verses while living with her family in Veliko Tarnovo
Veliko Tarnovo

Veliko Tarnovo is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. Often referred to as the "City of the Tsars", Veliko Turnovo is located on the Yantra River and is famous as the historical capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, attracting many tourists with its unique architecture....
 in 1907-08. She, along with Dora Gabe (1886-1983), is considered one of the Bulgarian mothers of literature.

Bagryana taught in the village of Aftane, where she experienced rural life, from 1910 to 1911, after which she studied Slavic philology at Sofia University
Sofia University

The St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia or Sofia University is the oldest higher education institution in Bulgaria, founded on 1 October 1888....
. Her first poems were published in 1915 – Why (Zashto) and Night Song (Vecherna pesen) – in the magazine Contemporary Thought (Suvremenna misul).

It was after World War I
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 ended that she truly entered into the literary world, at a time when poetry was undergoing a transformation. By 1921, she was already active in the literary life, and was collaborating on the Newspaper of the Woman and the magazine Modernity, among other publications.

With the arrival of her first book, The Eternal and the Holy (Vechnata i svyatata, 1927), she earned the confirmation of her peers. She also started writing children’s stories. Her poems are straightforward, sensitive and serious, as in The Well (Klandenetsut), a fable-like piece relating a well she dug when a little girl to the wellspring of poetry in her soul. They often are undeniably feminine – as in the poem The Eternal, in which the writer contemplates the body of a dead mother, or Evening Prayer – and spirited, as shown by the youthful, rebellious spirit in The Elements.

Bagriana passed her life surrounded by words, editing a number of magazines and writing. Her works have been translated into over 30 languages. Her poems are most recently available in a book entitled Penelope of the 21st Century: Selected poems of Elisaveta Bagryana, translated by Brenda Walker.

In 1969, she won a gold medal from the National Association of Poets in Rome. She was also the second of three Bulgarians ever to have been nominated for a Nobel Prize
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See also

  • List of Bulgarian language poets
    List of Bulgarian language poets

    The list of Bulgarian language poets includes those literary figures who are notable for their poetry written in the native tongue of Bulgaria. This language is also spoken in parts of the Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Serbia....


External links

  • of Bulgarian literature online.