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Dimitar Talev

Died in 1966

Born in 1898 in Prilep, in what was then Ottoman Macedonia, he studied in Vienna and then in Sofia and earned his living from journalism at the daily Makedonia, in the capital. The regime installed in 1944 had him arrested, expelled him from the writers' union, sent him to the camps of Bobov Dol and then Kutsian, and interned his family in Lukovit from 1948; it was from this isolation that he brought out the novel that opens his Macedonian cycle. Rehabilitated before the publication of this book, he afterwards received official prizes and died in Sofia in 1966.

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