Valeri Nisimov Petrov (real name Valeri Nisim Mevorah ; April 22, 1920 - August 27, 2014 ) is a Bulgarian novelist, poet and translator of Jewish origin. Academician of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2003).
| Valerie Petrov | |
|---|---|
| Valerie Petrov | |
 | |
| Birth name | Valerie Nissim Mevorah |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Sofia , Bulgaria |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
| Citizenship (citizenship) | |
| Occupation | poet, novelist, translator, screenwriter |
| Language of Works | Bulgarian |
| Autograph | |
Biography
Born on April 22, 1920 in Sofia into a Jewish - Bulgarian family. Father Nissim Mevorach is an eminent lawyer, a specialist in family law, a lawyer, a public figure and a diplomat, in 1945-1947 the ambassador to the United States, a representative of Bulgaria in the UN, the author of a book about Peyo Yavorov . Mother Maria Petrova - French teacher in the capital's gymnasiums. She was born in Varna , and there, on Slavyanskaya Street, Valery spent the holidays [3] . In 1939, Valery Petrov graduated from the capital's Italian Lyceum (gymnasium course). Being baptized in the Evangelical Church in Sofia, Professor Nissim Mevorah and his wife became Protestants and decided that his son would be named Valerie Nisimov Petrov.
At the age of 15, Valeri Petrov published his poem “Birds to the North” ( Bulgarian. Birds to the North ), in 1936 his poems were published in the journal “Pupichesky Podem” (“Student's Takeoff”), and in 1938 the first book “Birds on North "under the pseudonym Asen Rakovsky. In the future, he signs literary works with the name of the mother (Petrov).
Subsequently, he created the poem “Palechko” (“Little Boy with a Finger”), “On the Pat” (“On the Road”), “Juvenes Dum Sumus”, “Edge of the Blue Sea” (“Edge of the Blue Sea”), “Tavansky Spomen "(" Memories from the attic ") and the cycle of poems" Tenderness "(" Tenderness ").
In 1944, Petrov graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Sofia University , for some time he conducted medical practice.
In the fall and winter of 1944 , after Bulgaria went over to the side of the anti-Hitler coalition, he worked on Sofia Radio. In 1947-1950, he was an attaché for the press and culture of the Bulgarian embassy in Italy. After that - a professional writer. In 1945-1962 deputy editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine "Hornet" ( Bulgarian Starshel ).
He is the author of numerous poetry collections, of which the most famous poem is “The Season of Autumn” ( Bulgarian. In Mekat Yesen ; 1960, Dimitrov Prize ). A high international recognition has been given to the book for children “Five fairy tales” ( Bulgarian. Petal orders ). He translated into Bulgarian the four-volume collection of plays by William Shakespeare (1970–1974), works by Rudyard Kipling , Gianni Rodari, and others. He wrote four feature films.
From his school years, he had leftist views and was a socialist [4] . His creativity is characterized by a sharp social orientation, irony, non-recognition of authorities, the refusal of so-called hurray-patriotism. Indicative in this regard are the verses "Spring Walk" and "Japanese Island". In the first of them, Valery Petrov showed the dark sides of life in pre-war Bulgaria. In the second, he criticized the film “Naked Island” by the famous film director Kaneto Shindo [5] . Valery Petrov was a staunch anti-fascist and never forgot his Jewish origins (for example, “Jewish laughter”, (“Jewish jokes”)).
In 1991, he was elected to the Seventh Grand Assembly of Bulgaria , who adopted the new Constitution of the country .
Awarded the Hristo Danov Prize for his contribution to Bulgarian literature ( 2006 ), the Order of St. Paisius Hilendari (2007).
He died on August 27, 2014 in Sofia.
Notes
- ↑ Petrov Valeri // The Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 t.] / Ed. A.M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119321319 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ MS, Varna, Novi , 30-11-2002, link dated October 9, 2009
- ↑ Krasimir Krumov. "Socialist society and Valery Petrov" (bolg.)
- ↑ Bulgarian poetry. XX century. - M .: Fiction, p. 334-3342
Links
- Official site (bolg.)
- Valery Petrov. Poems (in Russian)