ErostrateDiscovering the world's cultures, one work at a time
My list 0

How the works were chosen

Bulgaria

Author · Bulgaria

Peyo Yavorov

Died in 1914

Peyo Totev Kracholov, who wrote under the name Peyo Yavorov, was born on 13 January 1878 in Chirpan. At first an author of social and political poetry, he turned to introspection and founded Bulgarian symbolism, within the Misal circle. Linked to the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan revolutionary organisation, he prepared the uprising of 1903, edited revolutionary newspapers, went twice to Macedonia with the armed bands and wrote the biography of their leader, Gotse Delchev. The author of two plays, he died in Sofia in October 1914.

In the catalogue 1