Blaga Dimitrova

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Name Blaga Dimitrova Role Poet		Resigned July 6, 1993 Movies Detour

Born 2 January 1922 ( 1922-01-02 ) Byala Slatina, Bulgaria Died May 2, 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria Spouse Jordan Vasilev (m. ?–2003) Party Union of Democratic Forces Books Because the sea is black, Forbidden sea, Journey to oneself, Experiment mit der Liebe

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Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Блага Димитрова) (2 January 1922 – 2 May 2003) was a Bulgarian poet and Vice President of Bulgaria from 1992 until 1993.

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Life

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Born in Byala Slatina to a mother teacher and a father lawyer, Blaga Dimitrova was raised in Veliko Tarnovo and then moved to Sofia. She finished High School in 1942, and Slavic Philology at the University of Sofia in 1945.

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In the 1970s, her works became more critical of the communist government, and she received reprimands for not being politically correct. Four of the poetry books Dimitrova wrote in the 1970s- "Fireflies Fading", "Rubber Plant", "Questions", and "Hobbyada"- were all rejected by state publishing houses with no specific reason given.

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Blaga Dimitrova was the inspiration behind John Updike's short story "The Bulgarian Poetess".

During the Vietnam War, Dimitrova visited the country several times as a journalist, and in 1967 adopted a Vietnamese girl. Dimitrova was married to literary critic Jordan Vasilev.

She died on 2 May 2003.

Works

Because the sea is black: poems of Blaga Dimitrova. Translators Niko Boris & Heather McHugh. Wesleyan University Press. 1989.

Because the sea is black. Translators Ludmilla G. Popova-Wightman & Elizabeth A. Socolow. Ivy Press Princeton. June 2003. ISBN 1-930214-06-5.

The last rock eagle: selected poems of Blaga Dimitrova. Translators Brenda Walker, Vladimir Levchev, Belin Tonchev. Forest Books. 1992. ISBN 978-1-85610-009-0.

Forbidden sea: a poem. Ivy Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-930214-01-9.

Anthologies

Vasa D. Mihailovich, ed. (1977). "The Old Man and the World". White stones and fir trees: an anthology of contemporary Slavic literature. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-1194-4.

Walter M. Cummins, ed. (1993). "Almost a Prophecy; Night-light -- A Night-bird's Eye; The Great Wall; Amnesia in Reverse; Bee Lesson; The Shadow of the Trees; Overstepping One's Rights; Frost". Shifting borders: East European poetries of the eighties. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-3497-4.

References

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