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Svetoslav Minkov

Died in 1966

Born in 1902 in Radomir, he attended the military school at Weisskirchen, in Austria, and studied Slavic philology in Sofia; he studied economics in Munich in 1922 and 1923, where he frequented the café bohemia. A librarian, journalist and editor, he is regarded as the father of modern Bulgarian fantasy, and also translated oriental tales and a novel by Meyrink. Posted to the Bulgarian legation in Tokyo during the war, he died in Sofia in 1966.

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