Dimcho Debelyanov

Dimcho Debelyanov was born on 28 March 1887 in Koprivshtitsa, into a well-off family of tailors. After his father's death in 1896, the family grew poorer and moved to Plovdiv, then to Sofia in 1904. There he studied law, history and philosophy, worked at the central meteorological station, and was a translator from French and English and a journalist, and he sent his verse to the journals at the invitation of Pencho Slaveykov. Mobilised during the Balkan wars, he died in 1916, at the age of twenty-nine, without having published a book.

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• PoetryПомниш ли, помниш ли…Dimcho Debelyanov · 1914not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain