Georgi Konstantinov

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Georgi Konstantinow ( Bulgarian Георги Константинов ; * 1943 in Pleven , Bulgaria ) is a Bulgarian writer and former political prisoner and resistance fighter in communist Bulgaria under Todor Zhivkov .

Life

The anarchist Georgi Konstantinow was sentenced to 20 years in a labor camp for blowing up a Stalin monument in a park in Sofia in 1953 after Stalin's death. He fled to the West in 1973. The verdict was overturned in 1992 after the end of the communist dictatorship in Bulgaria.

In 2007 Konstantinov was proposed by the conservative party Union of Democratic Forces as a member of the Bulgarian Commission on the Archives of the Former State Security . Since the successor organization, the National Security Agency of the former Bulgarian State Security, is constitutionally responsible for deciding who is allowed to sit on this commission.

Konstantinov was not allowed to run for the election of the commission because the President of the State Commission for the Protection of Information , Zweta Markowa , decided without giving any reason that Konstantinov should be expelled.

Awards

  • Awards: National Poetry Award (1979, 1983)
  • Mealica Pontifia, Vaticana (1996)

Publications

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  • A smile is my capital in 1967; engl .: A Smile Is My Capital
  • Unliterary Heart 1978, English: Illiterate Heart
  • Jovial loner , 1982; English: Sociable Loner
  • Open Eye Coma , 1996; Wide-awake coma
  • A tree and a bird , 1999; Engl .: A Tree and a Bird
  • English complete editions: I Love You to Here

literature

  • Ilija Trojanow : Power and Resistance . Novel. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vandana Shiva: Anarchist Worlds. Edition Nautilus, 2012, ISBN 978-3-864-38090-7 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Ilija Trojanow: "If Stalin could still experience that" . In: taz , April 11, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Konstantinov, Georgi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Константинов, Георги (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian writer and former resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Pleven , Bulgaria