Ivailo Petrov

Born in 1923 in Bdintsi, in Dobruja, under the name Prodan Kyuchukov, the son of illiterate peasants, he was mobilised after 1944 and sent to Hungary, from which he returned by a miracle. He studied law for a few semesters and graphic arts for a few years at the academy of fine arts, which he left without a degree, then worked as an editor at the radio, at a publishing house and at a literary newspaper. His great novel, the first part of which appeared in 1982 and the second in 1986, reconstructs through the fates of six neighbours the forced collectivisation of the countryside. He died in Sofia in 2005.

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• NarrativeBefore I Was Born and Other StoriesПреди да се родя и след товаIvailo Petrov · 1968Literature