Stoyan Zagorchinov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Bulgarian writer
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Place of Birth: Plovdiv, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria
About Stoyan Zagorchinov
- Stoyan Zagorchinov (????? ??????????; 1889–1969) was a Bulgarian writer.
- He is the author of Last Day, God's Day, one of the first social-historical epic novel in Bulgarian literature.
- Zagorchinov was also an author of plays, essays, portrait pieces, articles and memoirs. Zagorchinov was born in 1889 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
- It is unknown whether his birth date is 3 December or 3 March.
- He studied history at Sofia University.
- Then he continued studies of history and philosophy in Geneva, Switzerland.
- He graduated from Sofia University with a major in History and French language.
- During the years 1920–1925 Zagorchinov taught French at the Naval Force School in Varna.Meanwhile, he took part in the wars between 1912 and 1918.
- During World War I (1915-18) he served in Kyustendil as an officer-translator at the Army Headquarters.
- He worked as a bank clerk in Varna (1918-19), a history professor at the Marine Mechanical School in Varna (1920-25) and French at the National Military School in Sofia (1925-49).
- He collaborated with the magazines "Modern Thought", "Bulgarian Thought", "Hyperion", "Fate", "Art and Criticism", "Art", "Balkan Review" and others.He died in 1969 in Sofia.
- It is unknown if the date of his death is 3 January or 31 January.
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