Elin Pelin

Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov, who took the name Elin Pelin, was born on 8 July 1877 in Baylovo, near Sofia. A schoolteacher in his native village, he moved to Sofia and became a librarian, first at the university and then at the National Library. His story collections of 1904 and 1911 depict his rural province with wit and humanity, and the adventures of Yan Bibiyan made him an author loved by children. Elected in 1940 head of the Union of Bulgarian Writers, he died in Sofia on 3 December 1949.

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• NarrativeГерацитеElin Pelin · 1911not translated into EnglishLiterature