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Ivan 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 (then part of the
Ottoman Empire).
Biography
The 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
Olteniţa in
Romania to study trade despite his lack of interest in it. He was immersed in his poetic world. Soon he left Olteniţa and went to
Brăila where he met
Hristo Botev, a Bulgarian
revolutionary and poet. From Brăila he went to
Galaţi 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'd to flee the country, going back to Galaţi, 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
Epopee to 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 into 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 works
Other 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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