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Ivan Vazov
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Ivan VazovIvan Vazov -(June 27, 1850 - September 22, 1921) was a
Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright. He was born in Sopot, a
town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria.
BiographyThe exact date of Vazov´s birth is disputed, as he
himself was unaware of his precise date of birth. His mother, Suba,
was a neighbour of his father, Mintcho Vazov, and both had a lot of
influence on the young poet.After finishing primary school in
Sopot, Mintcho sent his son to Kalofer, appointing him assistant
teacher. Having done his final exams in Kalofer, the young teacher
returned to Sopot to help in his father´s grocery. The next year
his father sent him to Plovdiv to Naiden Gerov´s school. There
Vazov made his first steps as a poet.He returned to Sopot and was
sent to Oltenita in Romania to study trade despite his lack of
interest in it. He was immersed in his poetic world. Soon he left
Oltenita and went to Braila where he met Hristo Botev, a Bulgarian
revolutionary and poet. From Braila he went to Galati to his uncle.
There he met Botev again.In 1874 he joined the struggle for his
country´s independence from the Ottoman Empire. He returned to
Sopot in 1875 where he became a member of the local revolutionary
committee. After the failure of the April Uprising of 1876, he had
to flee the country, going back to Galati, where most of the
surviving revolutionaries were exiled. There he was appointed a
secretary of the committee.Vazov was probably heavily influenced by
Hristo Botev, who was the ideological leader of the Bulgarian
revolutionary movement. He started writing his famous poems with
Botev and some other Bulgarian emigrants in Romania. In 1876 he
published his first work, Priaporetz and Gusla, followed by
"Bulgaria´s Sorrows" in 1877.Bulgaria regained its independence in
1878 as a result of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878 and Vazov
wrote the famous Epic of the Forgotten. He became the editor of the
political reviews "Science" and "Dawn." He was, however, forced
into exile once again, this time to Odessa, because of the
persecution of the russophile political faction. Returning to
Bulgaria with the help of his father, he started teaching. Vazov´s
next stay was in Svishtov, where he became a civil servant.He moved
to Sofia in 1889 where he started publishing the review
Dennitsa.Vazov´s 1893 novel Under the Yoke, which depicts the
Ottoman oppression of Bulgaria, is the most famous piece of classic
Bulgarian literature and has been translated in over 30
languages.Later in his life Vazov was a prominent and widely
respected figure in the social and cultural life of newly
independent Bulgaria.The Bulgarian Ivan Vazov National Theatre in
Sofia is named after him.
Famous worksOther famous works by Vazov are the novels New
Country (1894), Under Our Heaven (1900), The Empress of Kazalar
(1902), Songs of Macedonia (1914), It Will Not Perish (1920) and
the plays Vagabonds (1894), Borislav (1909) and Ivaylo (1911).
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