14 Facts About Bulgarian literature

Bulgarian literature is literature written by Bulgarians or residents of Bulgaria, or written in the Bulgarian language; usually the latter is the defining feature.

Bulgarian literature can be said to be one of the oldest among the Slavic peoples, having its roots during the late 9th century and the times of Simeon I of the First Bulgarian Empire.

However, after the establishment of the Second Bulgarian literature Empire followed another period of upsurge during the time of Patriarch Evtimiy in the 14th century.

Medieval Bulgarian literature was dominated by religious themes, most works being hymns, treatises, religious miscellanies, apocrypha and hagiographies, most often heroic and instructive.

Bulgarian literature managed to use the living language of the folklore songs to give an expression of modern ideas, doubts and questions.

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Bulgarian literature's works are small in number, most of them with intensive dialogue form and strong emotional message.

Bulgarian literature made a conscious effort to set the beginnings of modern literature and Modernism in the country introducing the European philosophical and metaphysical ideas, partly modified and rebuilt upon the traditional linguistic and imagery heritage.

Bulgarian literature is best remembered for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most controversial and curious characters in the Bulgarian literature, with diverse layers and rich nuances.

Interwar period in the Bulgarian literature will be remembered not only because of the dramatic social changes but because of the reforms in the literary genres.

Bulgarian literature experienced the influence of avant-garde movements like the German expressionism and the French surrealism.

Bulgarian literature was killed at the age of 30 and although his career did not span more than 6 years, he is greatly respected and regarded by many as one of the most influential modernist poets and translators.

Bulgarian literature was sentenced to death because of his underground communist activity against the Government.

Bulgarian literature prose flourished in the period between the world wars manly because of the stories and the short novels of Elin Pelin and Yordan Yovkov .

The avant-garde Bulgarian literature movements were scarcely and unsystematically represented until the 80s.