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- NarrativeЖитие и страдания грешнаго СофронияSophronius of Vratsa · 1805not translated into EnglishA bishop of Ottoman Bulgaria tells of his trials, in the time of brigands and rebel pashas.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryГорски пътникGeorgi Rakovski · 1857not translated into EnglishA band of Bulgarian insurgents sets out from the Ottoman capital for the mountains, in a long poem.Literature
- PoetryБѫлгарски народни пѣсниDimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov · 1861not translated into EnglishThe great collection of folk songs published by two brothers from Macedonia on the eve of their deaths.Literature
- NarrativeБългари от старо времеLyuben Karavelov · 1867not translated into EnglishTwo notables of a Bulgarian town quarrel, and their children want to marry.LiteraturePublic domain
- TheatreThe Misunderstood CivilizationКриворазбраната цивилизацияDobri Voynikov · 1871A Bulgarian family apes the West and lets itself be seduced by a false apostle of progress.Literature
- PoetryИзворът на БелоногатаPetko Slaveykov · 1873not translated into EnglishA young girl who has come to draw water in the village finds herself before a vizier who has decided to take her away.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryThe Poems of Hristo BotevПесни и стихотворенияHristo Botev · 1875The verses of a Bulgarian revolutionary who leaves to fight against Ottoman rule.Literature
- NarrativeExtracts from Notes on the Bulgarian UprisingsЗаписки по българските въстанияZahari Stoyanov · 1884The Bulgarian conspiracies of 1870 to 1876, told by a man who was there and who names everyone.Literature
- NovelUnder the YokeПод иготоIvan Vazov · 1889An escaped prisoner returns under a false name to a small Bulgarian town and prepares an uprising there.LiteraturePublic domain
- NovelBai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern BulgarianБай ГаньоAleko Konstantinov · 1895A rose merchant crosses Europe without seeing anything, then returns home to go into politics.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryЕпически песниPencho Slaveykov · 1896not translated into EnglishNarrative poems in which the fate of the great European artists stands in for a self-portrait.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryЖени и вино! Вино и жениKiril Hristov · 1897not translated into EnglishA young man dismisses the sensible life and claims the right to spend his youth.LiteraturePublic domain
- NarrativeВ темницаKonstantin Velichkov · 1899not translated into EnglishThe memories of a Bulgarian prisoner in the wake of the 1876 uprising.Literature
- TheatreЗидариPetko Todorov · 1902not translated into EnglishA village builds its church under the threat of brigands, and its masons cannot agree.LiteraturePublic domain
- TheatreВ полите на ВитошаPeyo Yavorov · 1911not translated into EnglishA wealthy family refuses its daughter the idealistic politician she loves.LiteraturePublic domain
- NarrativeГерацитеElin Pelin · 1911not translated into EnglishThree brothers under their father's roof, and a house that ceases to hold together the day the mother is no longer there.Literature
- PoetryПомниш ли, помниш ли…Dimcho Debelyanov · 1914not translated into EnglishAn elegy for the lost home, in which memory becomes a prison.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryПтици в нощтаNikolay Liliev · 1919not translated into EnglishPoems in which memory and song wander outside the world, and everything is reduced to sounds and glimmers.Literature
- PoetryДа бъде ден!Hristo Smirnenski · 1922not translated into EnglishThe night of the city and the call for the day, in the verses of a twenty-three-year-old poet.LiteraturePublic domain
- Short filmБай ГаньоVasil Gendov · 1922The first film devoted to Konstantinov's satirical hero, here in the middle of an election campaign in the capital.Cinema
- CinemaUnder the Old SkyПод старото небеNikolay Larin · 1922A village love affair caught between two generations, in a silent film now lost.Cinema
- NarrativeПаладиниGeorgi Stamatov · 1924not translated into EnglishThe rise and decline of an artist, in a short city story.Literature
- PoetryРомантични песниTeodor Trayanov · 1926not translated into EnglishA collection of soothing verse, in which nature and the vagabond's road speak of solitude and loss.Literature
- NovelХороAnton Strashimirov · 1926not translated into EnglishA wedding and its dance, in the aftermath of a crushed uprising.LiteraturePublic domain
- Short storiesПоследна радостYordan Yovkov · 1926not translated into EnglishA small town and its figures, caught up in the war.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryВечната и святатаElisaveta Bagryana · 1927not translated into EnglishThe voice of an unruly, nomadic woman, in the first collection of a Bulgarian poet.Literature
- Short storiesThe Lady with the X-Ray EyesДамата с рентгеновите очиSvetoslav Minkov · 1934Satirical stories in which technical progress promises happiness and makes it all wrong.Literature
- PoetryМоторни песниNikola Vaptsarov · 1940not translated into EnglishA worker poet expresses his faith in life, in a language close to speech.LiteraturePublic domain
- NovelThe Iron CandlestickЖелезният светилникDimitar Talev · 1952A man of the mountains comes down to a town in Macedonia, founds a household there, and his children enter a struggle over church and language.Literature
- Short filmMarko the HeroЮнак МаркоTodor Dinov · 1955Krali Marko, hero of the Bulgarian sung epics, turned into an animated film by the founder of the country's animation school.Cinema
- CinemaOn a Small IslandНа малкия островRangel Vulchanov · 1958Off the Bulgarian coast, captive insurgents wait for a decision on their fate and dream of escape.Cinema
- NovelTime of PartingВреме разделноAnton Donchev · 1964Two men from the two camps tell the same thing: the order to convert a valley, and the time limit it is given.Literature
- CinemaThe Peach ThiefКрадецът на прасковиValo Radev · 1964A commander's wife and a Serbian prisoner meet in a peach orchard, at the end of the war.Cinema
- Short storiesСвирепо настроениеYordan Radichkov · 1965not translated into EnglishVillage tales, linked one to another, in which words lead nowhere.Literature
- NovelJourney to OneselfПътуване към себе сиBlaga Dimitrova · 1965A young woman leaves the mountain building site where she kept her past a secret for two years, and looks back on what she lived through there.Literature
- NovelЛетопис на смутното времеVera Mutafchieva · 1965not translated into EnglishThe time of the Kirdjali brigands, told by a historian of the Ottoman Empire.Literature
- CinemaDetourОтклонениеGrisha Ostrovski and Todor Stoyanov · 1967Former lovers meet again after years and question what separated them.Cinema
- NarrativeBefore I Was Born and Other StoriesПреди да се родя и след товаIvailo Petrov · 1968A peasant wedding in Dobruja, told with irony by the child who will be born of it.Literature
- Short filmThe Three FoolsТримата глупациDonyo Donev · 1970Three wordless companions, the first heroes of a satirical series in Bulgarian animation.Cinema
- CinemaThree ReservistsТримата от запасаZako Heskiya · 1971Three reservists go up to the front line in Hungary in 1945, with no aptitude whatever for war.Cinema
- CinemaVacation with KidsС деца на мореDimitar Petrov · 1972Two stories of a summer at the seaside, where the adult world is seen through children's eyes.Cinema
- CinemaThe Goat HornКозият рогMetodi Andonov · 1972To avenge his wife, a shepherd raises their daughter as a boy, far from everything, in the mountains.Cinema
- CinemaThe DoubleДвойникътNikolay Volev · 1980An overworked scientist has himself replaced by his cousin, his double, a shop manager in the provinces.Cinema
- CinemaA Nameless BandОркестър без имеLyudmil Kirkov · 1982Amateur musicians want to make it big on the coast and discover the price of compromise.Cinema
- CinemaDangerous CharmОпасен чарIvan Andonov · 1984A charming swindler travels the country under assumed names and lives off promises of marriage.Cinema
- CinemaTime of ViolenceВреме разделноLyudmil Staikov · 1988A valley in the Rhodopes is ordered to change its religion.Cinema
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