Vanzeti Vasilev ( Bulgarian. Vanzeti Dimitrov Vasilev ; born 1945 , Radomir ) - Bulgarian chemist and writer . The son of a political prisoner Dimitar Vasilev, who named the child in honor of the American anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti , and the nephew of the first Bulgarian yoga, Mikhail Vladimirov.
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Biography
Born in 1945 in the city of Radomir . In 1963 he was not admitted to university exams, but later graduated from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Sofia , where he defended his thesis .
He was persecuted by the communist security agencies as the son of a prisoner of the Belene concentration camps. He worked as a technologist in the country's factories.
In 1988 , with a risk to his life, he fled to Serbia, and from there to Italy with luggage in which there were only books. He worked as a gardener in Castel Gandolfo . At the end of 1989 he moved to New York . There he worked as a night watchman, artist , builder , truck driver, taxi driver. In 1992 , he was appointed a chemist at the Department of the Environment (DEP) in New York, but subsequently focused only on literary work.
He is the author of The Seeds of Fear ( 1991 ), Trains to Rome ( 2006 - translated into German and presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009 ), and Stories from the New York Library ( 2011 ).
He is a member of the editorial board at Cross Cultural Communication, a New York-based publisher.
Books
- Seeds of Fear ( 1991 )
- Trains to Rome ( 2006 )
- “Stories from the New York Library” ( 2011 )
- “Pack the wind” (2013)