Nikola Vaptsarov

Born in 1909 in Bansko, the son of a Macedonian revolutionary leader, and trained at the naval mechanics school in Varna, he worked as a stoker on the state railways, as a technician in a paper factory, and then at the Sofia rendering plant, and also wrote for the stage and for radio. A communist activist, he published only one book in his lifetime. He joined the resistance in the autumn of 1941, was arrested in March 1942, tried by a military court and shot in Sofia on 23 July 1942, on the very evening of the verdict.

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• PoetryМоторни песниNikola Vaptsarov · 1940not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain