Gyencho Georgiev Belev ( Bulgarian. Gyoncho Belev ; June 12 (24), 1889 , Ihtiman - January 24, 1963 ) - Bulgarian writer .
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Biography
Born in a poor family, after his father's early death, he worked as a litter at a coffee shop, a librarian, in 1909 he moved to Sofia and got a job as a clerk in a bank. He made his debut in print in 1912, a poem in prose "Mountain immortel", written under the influence of Casimir Tetmeyer . During the First Balkan War, he was a volunteer in the Red Cross , participated in the First World War as a medical orderly.
In the 1920s drawing closer to pro-Soviet-oriented writers, in 1923 he published his first book of short stories, "Secret Suffering." In 1933 he published a short story collection, “Film and Coal,” 1936 - “The Dam Cracks.” Belev - author of the novels “After the Yoke” (1937), “Crack” (1939), the trilogy “Cases from the Life of Minko Minin” (1945-1952; Dimitrov Prize ). Member of the Bulgarian Communist Party since 1944 .
On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko, he published the article “Eternal as a People” in a special anniversary publication - the newspaper of the same name “Taras Shevchenko”. One of the authors sent to the Union of Writers of the USSR at the beginning of May 1939 , dedicated to the same date of writing a group of Bulgarian writers ( Georgy Bakalov , L. Stoyanov, T. Pavlov, K. Zidarov and others), which spoke about the significant influence of Shevchenko on the Bulgarian literature of the second half of the XIX century.