Nikolay Liliev

Nikolay Mihaylov Popivanov, who signed himself Nikolay Liliev, was born on 26 May 1885 in Stara Zagora. He left the commercial school in Svishtov in 1903, studied literature in Lausanne in 1905 and 1906, then commerce in Paris from 1909 to 1912. A contributor to and co-editor of the journal Zlatorog, and dramaturge of the National Theatre from 1924 to 1928, then from 1934, he translated Shakespeare, Corneille, Hugo and Ibsen. Regarded as a major figure of Bulgarian symbolism, he died in Sofia on 6 October 1960.

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• PoetryПтици в нощтаNikolay Liliev · 1919not translated into EnglishLiterature