14 Facts About Blaga Dimitrova

Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova was a Bulgarian poet and the 2nd Vice President of Bulgaria from 1992 until 1993.

Blaga Dimitrova continued her studies at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, as she defended a dissertation on "Mayakovsky and Bulgarian poetry" in 1951.

In 1963, after the tirade against the country's intellectuals by the Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Todor Zhivkov, the publishing house suspended publications and Blaga Dimitrova left her job in protest and moved to another publishing firm.

Blaga Dimitrova was engaged in translation and social work, and compiled anthologies.

In February 1989 Blaga Dimitrova was one of 102 Bulgarian intellectuals to sign an appeal in defence of Vaclav Havel.

Blaga Dimitrova worked in this position for no more than a year and a half.

Blaga Dimitrova published her first poems in the magazine Bulgarian Speech as a student in 1938, at only 16 years old.

Later, as a high school student at the First Girls' High School in the capital, under the skilled and caring guidance of her Bulgarian language and literature teacher Manya Miletich, Blaga Dimitrova began to publish in various newspapers and magazines.

Blaga Dimitrova was noticed by the literary critic Vladimir Vasilev, who strongly invited the future poet to send poems to the Zlatorog magazine as well.

Blaga Dimitrova worked in the magazine "Septemvri" as an editor for eight years, after which she went to the Rhodopes for two years.

Blaga Dimitrova started working in "Narodna Kultura" as an editor and translator.

Blaga Dimitrova is the author of the script for the film "Deviation".

Blaga Dimitrova left over 80 books, screenplays, essays, interviews, a rich treasury of representative of generations of female authors in Bulgarian literature.

Blaga Dimitrova wrote an essay in 1989 called The Name during the Big Excursion, showing her disillusionment of the Assimilation process and supporting the return of Muslim names.