Emiliyan Stanev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Emiliyan Stanev

Bulgarian writer

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1907

Place of Birth: Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria

Date of Death: 15-Mar-1979

Profession: writer, politician

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Emiliyan Stanev

  • Emiliyan Stanev (Bulgarian: ??????? ??????) was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev (?????? ??????? ??????, 28 February 1907 – 15 March 1979), a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer. Stanev was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1907 and spent his childhood in Tarnovo and Elena, where he long lived with his family.
  • From an early age, his father would take him to his hunting outings in the open, which influenced Stanev's later work, where nature is often described.
  • In 1928, he finished the Elena high school as a private student and moved to Sofia, where he studied painting under Tseno Todorov.
  • In the 1930s, he enrolled in Finances and Credit in Free University of Political and Economic Sciences, (today University of National end World Economy in Sofia).
  • In 1932–1944, he was an office worker of the Capital Municipality and in 1945 he was the director of the hunting reserve in the village of Bukovets.Stanev published his first works in 1931.
  • He was active in a number of magazines and newspapers: he headed the fiction department of the Literary Front newspaper and published in Fate, Testaments, Art and Critic, Goldhorn, Wreath, Bulgarian Speech, etc.
  • Stanev wrote tales involving animals, social and philosophical prose, historical novels and novelettes.
  • During his stay in Sofia he was an acquaintance of the city's leading intellectuals who had a strong influence on his later works.
  • Stanev's first book was a collection of short stories named Tempting Glitters issued in 1938.
  • His next book was the collection Alone from 1940, which set forth a series of works devoted to the relations between man and nature.
  • The books to follow were Wolfish Nights (1943), Workdays and Holidays (1945), Wild Bird (1946), In a Silent Night (1948).
  • One of his last and best-known works, The Peach Thief, was published in 1948 and filmed in 1964.
  • After 1950, he worked for 14 years on his novel Ivan Kondarev describing the events surrounding the September Uprising of 1923.
  • Stanev also authored many books for children and teenagers, such as Through Forests and Waters (1943), The Greedy Bear Cub (1944), Tale of a Forest (1948), When the Frost Melts (1950) and Chernishka (1950). The later works of Emiliyan Stanev had more philosophical themes; in those works, he also employed his in-depth knowledge of the history of Bulgaria.
  • The novels Legend of Sibin, the Prince of Preslav (1968), Tihik and Naziriy, Antichrist (1970), The Queen of Tarnovo (1974), etc., all date to this period.
  • Stanev died in Sofia in 1979.

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