Yordan Yovkov

Yordan Yovkov was born on 9 November 1880 in Zheravna. After secondary school he became a schoolteacher and began studying law at the University of Sofia. An officer during the Balkan Wars and the First World War, he worked after 1920 at the Bulgarian legation in Bucharest. His Staroplaninski legendi, in 1927, made him a major writer, before the plays Albena and Boryana. He died on 15 October 1937, aged fifty-six.

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• Short storiesПоследна радостYordan Yovkov · 1926not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain