(1935 - )
Lyubomir Levchev was born in Troyan. He studied Library and Information Science at Sofia University. He had the jobs of a literary editor at Radio Sofia and an editor in chief of the Literaturen front newspaper (1970-1972); in the period 1979-1988, he was chairman of the Union of Bulgarian Writers. He authored many volumes of poetry, among which: Zvezdite sa moi. Stihotvoreniya [The Stars are Mine. Poems] (1957), Zavinagi. Stihotvoreniya [Forever. Poems] (1960), Pozitsiya. Stihotvoreniya [Stance. Poems] (1962), Observatoriya. Stihotvoreniya [Observatory. Poems] (1967), Strelbishte. Stihotvoreniya [Shooting Range. Poems] (1971, 1974), Dnevnik za izgaryane. Stihotvoreniya [A Diary to Burn. Poems] (1973, 1975), Svoboda. Stihove [Freedom. Poems] (1974), Otkas. Stihove [Excerpt. Poems] (1980), Metronom. Stihove [Metronome. Poems] (1986), Sedmata smart. Stihove [The Seventh Death. Poems] (1989), Nebesen sriv. Stihotvoreniya [Sky Break. Poems] (1996), Prasten ot prast [A Ring of Soil] (1999), Selena (2001), Vecheren Act [An Evening Act] (2003), Pepel ot svetlina [Ashes of Light] (2005), Kon sas zeleni krila [A Green-Winged Horse] (2009), Kapriznata igra na vremenata [Playful and Capricious Times] (2010), etc.
Levchev is an essayist, a memoirist, and a novelist too: Poeticheskoto izkustvo [The Art of Poetry] (1986), Ubiy balgarina. Roman [Kill the Bulgarian. A novel] (1988), Ti si sledvashtiyat. Roman [You Are Next. A novel] (2001), Razmisli za orfizma [Reflections on Orphism], Pisma ot Ada. Eseta. [Letters from Hell. Essays] (2008), Panihida za martvoto vreme [A Commemoration of Dead Times] (2011).
Levchev was awarded the Order of Stara planina – first class, for his great service to Bulgaria in the development and popularisation of Bulgarian art and culture (2006), the National Hristo G. Danov Award for lifetime achievement (2008), the international Gold Medal for Poetry of the French Academy and the title Knight of Poetry (1985), the medal of the Association of Writers in Venezuela (1985), the Mate Zalka and Boris Polevoy prizes – Russia (1986), the Grand Prize of the Alexander Pushkin Institute and the Sorbonne (1989), the Fernando Rielo International Prize for Mystical Poetry (1993), the lifetime achievement award of the American William Meredith Foundation for his contribution to the cultural processes in Bulgaria (2013).
Lyubomir Levchev’s works have been rendered in English by Vladimir Philipov, Todor Shopov, Valentin Krastev, Petar Mandzhukov, Nikola Russanov, John Robert Colombo, Jack Harte, Ewald Osers, Shtilyana Halacheva-Ruseva, etc.
Levchev is an essayist, a memoirist, and a novelist too: Poeticheskoto izkustvo [The Art of Poetry] (1986), Ubiy balgarina. Roman [Kill the Bulgarian. A novel] (1988), Ti si sledvashtiyat. Roman [You Are Next. A novel] (2001), Razmisli za orfizma [Reflections on Orphism], Pisma ot Ada. Eseta. [Letters from Hell. Essays] (2008), Panihida za martvoto vreme [A Commemoration of Dead Times] (2011).
Levchev was awarded the Order of Stara planina – first class, for his great service to Bulgaria in the development and popularisation of Bulgarian art and culture (2006), the National Hristo G. Danov Award for lifetime achievement (2008), the international Gold Medal for Poetry of the French Academy and the title Knight of Poetry (1985), the medal of the Association of Writers in Venezuela (1985), the Mate Zalka and Boris Polevoy prizes – Russia (1986), the Grand Prize of the Alexander Pushkin Institute and the Sorbonne (1989), the Fernando Rielo International Prize for Mystical Poetry (1993), the lifetime achievement award of the American William Meredith Foundation for his contribution to the cultural processes in Bulgaria (2013).
Lyubomir Levchev’s works have been rendered in English by Vladimir Philipov, Todor Shopov, Valentin Krastev, Petar Mandzhukov, Nikola Russanov, John Robert Colombo, Jack Harte, Ewald Osers, Shtilyana Halacheva-Ruseva, etc.
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