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The Renowned, The Forgotten and The Banned

The Renowned, The Forgotten and The Banned

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Product Code:
1502-01
ISBN
978-619-152-595-9
SKU
08.0046
Year
05-03-2015
Pages
520
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.65 kg
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
Behind the Scenes, Historical Figures, Bulgarian History, Memoirs & Documents, Essays, Theory of Literature, Biographies & Autobiographies, Bulgarian Authors

Katya Zografova

Katya Zografova

Katya Zografova is a Bulgarian literary historian, literary critic and writer. She was born in 1957 in Panagyurishte. She graduated Bulgarian Philology at the Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski". In 1989 she won a competition and began work at the National Literary Museum in Sofia. For many years she has been the director of the House Museum "Nikola Vaptsarov" (2002 - 2009, 2016 -), and from 2…

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The last book by the deserved author Katya Zografova constitutes her most important project. This is the book of a life spent in and for literature, granting insights of the work and lives of a series of Bulgarian writers as presented in an European context. For this work Katya Zografova has been nominated for the Hristo G. Danov prize. 

She calls the volume the book of her life". In fact, she is known as the advocate of those wronged by history and believes that writers and other creatives who are totally forgotten today often for political reasons such as Rayko Alexiev, Chavdar Mutafov and Fanny Popova-Mutafova had all the worth to get into the group of celebrities. 

Named jokingly homo archivarius Katya Zografova browses into the legacy of Bulgaria's foremost writers - Ivan Vazov, Peyo Yavorov, Yordan Yovkov, Hristo Smirnenski, Dimitar Dimov and others. In the meantime, however she also gives attention to a few little known but worthy writers. Some of them like Boris Shivachev and Matvey Valev were emigrants.

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