Dimitar Talev (1 September 1898 – 20 October 1966) was a Bulgaria

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n writer and journalist.

Biography

Born in Prilep

Prilep

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 - Ottoman Empire

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, present day Republic of Macedonia

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, he graduated high school in Bitola

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. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb

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 and Vienna

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, and Slavic

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 philology in Sofia University

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 (1925). He was the managing editor of the Macedonia newspaper, and a contributor and editor in the Zora newspaper. In 1944 he was arrested by the communist authorities for his patriotic and anti - macedonistic position and sent to the Sofia Central Prison and later to the labor camp

Labor camp

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s Bobov Dol

Bobov Dol

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 and Kutsian. He was expelled from the Bulgarian Writers' Union and from 1948 to 1952 he was exiled in Lukovit

Lukovit

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. In 1966 Talev was elected as MP in the 31st Narodno Sabranie (Bulgarian Parliament).

Talev Glacier

Talev Glacier

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 on Graham Land

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, Antarctica is named after Dimitar Talev.

Literary work

Talev published his first story in 1917 in the newspaper "Rodina" (Motherland), Skopje

Skopje

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. Later he continued to publish his literary texts in periodicals in Bulgaria and abroad. His first book, "The Tears of my Mother" was published in 1925. It was a collection of stories and tales for children.

Novels

• Arduous Years
  • Part 1. In The Dusk of Morning 1928
  • Part 2. Revival 1929
  • Part 3. Ilinden 1930
• The Iron Oil Lamp 1952
• Ilinden 1953
• Kiprovets Arose 1954
• The Bells of Prespa 1954
• Samuil
  Samuil of Bulgaria
  Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal...
  
  
  • Book 1. Shields of Stone 1958
  • Book 2. Cinderella and the Prince 1959
  • Book 3. Downfall 1960
• I Hear Your Voices 1966

Short stories and collections

• The Golden Key 1935
• The Great King 1937
• The Old House 1938
• Novels and short stories 1962

External links

• The Iron Oil Lamp (in Bulgarian)