Dimcho Debelyanov house

The house of Bulgarian poet Dimcho Debelyanov (Димчо Дебелянов) (1887 - 1916) is now a museum in Koprivshtitsa. After early wealth, the family left this house on the death of Debelyanov's father and moved throughout Bulgaria.This loss of place had an influence on Debelyanov's work (he wrote of Plovdiv - now a centre for European haulage - with regret, calling it "the sorrowful city").

The house is beautiful with a lovely cobbled yard but as the family left the house, the interior is mostly museum-like but visitors comment on the warm atmosphere that remains.

Debelyanov's brief career through a variety of jobs ended in death in World War 1 fighting intriguingly with an Irish division. His fame as a poet was posthumous when his work was collected by friends after his death and published in a two volume anthology with his letters and notes. Today Debelyanov Point in Robert Island, South Shetland Islands is named after him.

More on the Dimcho Debelyanov house here http://visit.guide-bulgaria.com/a/183/dimcho_debelyanov_house-museum.htm and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimcho_Debelyanov.

Remember, remember the quiet space

quiet home in white blossom cherries?

Contemporary Bulgarian poets

Ivan Dimitrov and Virginia Zaharieva are included in this excellent overview of writers in Bulgarian - both are poets who also write in other disciplines; Dimitrov has a play open in NewYork currently.


This website is funded by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation for Creative Writing, based in Sofia, Bulgaria, who call it "a literary platform which presents up-to-date profiles of living Bulgarian writers of fiction and short stories". Guess what a few poets have crept in there too....

You can find out more and, if you are a Bulgarian poet submit your own work, here http://www.contemporarybulgarianwriters.com/.

Dimtrov's play The Eyes of Others won the Shumen new play contest in Bulgaria and was selected from among hundreds of international plays to be read at the Lark Play Development Center’s 2012 hotINK Festival in New York. In September it becomes the first Bulgarian play to receive a major New York production. You can read more here http://offoffbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-First-Look-at-THE-EYES-OF-OTHERS-at-New-Ohio-Theatre-20120906#ixzz268mGgIMC.