Author · Bulgaria
Geo Milev
Died in 1925
Georgi Kassabov, who wrote under the name Geo Milev, was born on 15 January 1895 in Radnevo. After a year of philology at the University of Sofia, he left in 1912 for Leipzig, where he discovered German Expressionism, and stayed in London in 1914. Mobilised during the war, he then founded in Sofia the journal Vezni, open to the Symbolists and the Expressionists, and later launched Plamak; he was also a translator and critic. He died in Sofia on 15 May 1925.