Blaga Dimitrova

Blaga Dimitrova

Blaga Nikolowa Dimitrova ( Bulgarian Блага Димитрова ; born January 2, 1922 in Byala Slatina , Wraza Oblast ; † May 2, 2003 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian writer, poet, translator and politician.

Life

Blaga Dimitrova grew up in Veliko Tarnovo and then studied Slavic Studies in Sofia. After graduating in 1945, she did her doctorate in Leningrad and Moscow . In Bulgaria she stood out as a translator from ancient Greek, Polish, Russian, Swedish, German and Vietnamese, wrote literary reviews and essays, and worked as an editor for books for young people. During the Vietnam War, she traveled to Vietnam five times and eventually adopted a Vietnamese girl. She was married to the literary critic Jordan Wassilew .

At the end of the communist era in Bulgaria, she and others founded the Committee for Environmental Protection in Russia and the Club for Democracy in 1987 , from which the opposition alliance Union of Democratic Forces later emerged. From 1992 to 1993 she was the Vice-President of Bulgaria under President Shelju Schelew , but resigned again out of disappointment with politics. Blaga Dimitrova was very respected in Bulgaria because of her literary works, but also because of her social commitment. She was chairwoman of the Raina Kabaiwanska Foundation for orphans and received numerous literary prizes, such as the Grand Prize of the European Authors' Association The Cog (2001).

Works

• До утре , poems 1959
• Светът в шепа , poems 1962
• Обратно време , poems 1965
• Пътуване към себе си , novel 1965
• Осъдени на любов . Poems 1967
• Отклонение , novel 1967
  • Experiment with love. Translation by Barbara Sparing , Universitas, Berlin 1967.
  • under the title: love in a roundabout way . Translated from Bulgarian by Barbara Antkowiak, Volk und Welt Verlag, Berlin 1980.
    • Filming: Bulgaria 1967
• Мигове , poems 1968
• Лавина , Roman 1971 (German Die Avalanche, Berlin 1981)
• Как , poems 1974
• Младостта на Багряна и нейните спътници , 1975
• Дни черни и бели. Елисавета Багряна - наблюдения и разговори , 1975
• Гонг , poems 1976
• Пространства , poems 1980
• Лице , Roman 1981
• Лабиринт , poems 1987
• Между , poems 1990
• Нощен дневник , poems 1992
• Отсам и отвъд. Силуети на приятели , 1992
• Знаци по снега , 1992
• Нощна лампа сред бял ден , 1999; ISBN 954-492-141-9
• Времена , 2000; ISBN 954-439-659-4
• Събрани творби , work edition
  • Том 1. Ранни стихове , 2003; ISBN 954-90735-6-4
  • Том 2. Лирика и поеми , 2003; ISBN 954-90735-8-0
  • Том 3. Пътуване към себе си , 2003; ISBN 954-90735-9-9
  • Том 4. Отклонение , 2004; ISBN 954-9310-03-5
  • Том 5. Страшния съд , 2004; ISBN 954-9310-04-3
  • Том 6. Лавина , 2005; ISBN 954-9310-05-1

Selected editions of their works in German translation

• Condemned to love. Selected poems. Edition Xylos, Gelsenkirchen 1981, ISBN 3-921812-21-6 .
• Ars poetica. Poems. Tentamen, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-921625-60-2 .
• Window of hope. Poems. Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-353-00020-8 .
• Scar. Poems from forty years & two essays. Avlos-Verlag , Sankt Augustin 1999, ISBN 3-929634-26-0 ( Bulgarian Library , Vol. 3).
• The tongue bleeds behind the teeth (poems Bulgarian-German). Neue Sirene , Munich 2/1994 (from the Bulgarian by Michael Basse )

literature

• Heike Rader: In a detour to yourself. Blaga Dimitrova's Roman Otklonenie . Marburg an der Lahn: Biblion-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-932331-04-4
• Michael Basse : The risk is the deviation. On the poems of Blaga Dimitrova, Neue Sirene , Munich 2/1994

Web links

• Literature by and about Blaga Dimitrova in the catalog of the German National Library