Hristo Smirnenski

Hristo Dimitrov Izmirliev, who signed himself Hristo Smirnenski from 1917, was born on 17 September 1898 in Koukouch, today Kilkis, in Greece. After technical studies, he entered the military school in Sofia, which he left in 1918. From 1915 he was contributing poems and serialised pieces to the humorous press under many pseudonyms. In 1918 he published a first collection, a humorous one, which he later disowned, then in 1922 his second and last. He died in Sofia on 18 June 1923, aged twenty-four.

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• PoetryДа бъде ден!Hristo Smirnenski · 1922not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain