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Blaga Dimitrova

Died in 2003

Born in 1922 in Byala Slatina, brought up in Veliko Tarnovo and then in Sofia, a graduate in Slavic letters, she defended a thesis in 1951 at the Gorky Institute in Moscow, and was a poet, novelist and politician. Sent several times to Vietnam during the war, she brought back a book and adopted a Vietnamese orphan. One of her novels was withdrawn from bookshops in 1981. A founding member of the club for glasnost, she was vice-president of Bulgaria from 1992 to 1993, a post from which she resigned. She died in Sofia in 2003.

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