(1930 - )

Anton Donchev was born in Burgas. He went to a high school in Veliko Tarnovo and graduated with a degree in Law from the University of Sofia. Donchev has the title of an Academician from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His world fame came with the Vreme razdelno [Time of Parting] novel (1964). The novel has had 22 editions in Bulgarian, and has been translated into more than 30 languages, with print runs above two million copies and 33 foreign editions. Anton Donchev is also the author of Probuzhdane [Awakening] (1956), Skazanie za vremeto na Samuila, za Samuil i brat mu Aron, za sinovete im Radomir i Vladislav, za selyaka Zhitan i stareyshinata Gorazd Madriya, i za mnogo drugi hora zhiveli predi nas [The Story of Samuil and His Times, of His Brother Aaron, Their Sons Radomir and Vladislav, of Zhitan the Peasant and Gorazd the Alderman, and of Many Others Who Have Lived before Us] (1961), Devet litsa na choveka [The Nine Faces of Man] (1980), Nikolay Roerich [Nicholas Roerich] (1981), Skazanie za han Asparuh, knyaz Slav i zhretsa Teres, in four volumes [The Story of Khan Asparuh, Prince Slav and Teres, the Priest] (1981-1984), Stranniyat ritsar na sveshtenata kniga [The Weird Knight of the Holy Book] (1998), Legendi za dvete sakrovishta [Legends of the Two Treasures] (1998), Trite zhivota na Krakra [Krakra’s Three Lives] (2008). In addition to the novels, Donchev has penned short stories, articles, and film scripts.

Anton Donchev has been awarded a number of Bulgarian and foreign awards and orders, among them the Order of Stara planina, first class (2003); the Swedish Polar star order, first rank (2003), the Literature prize of the Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia (2004), the Marin Drinov award with a ribbon; the honorary plaque of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; the literary awards Ivan Vazov, Yordan Yovkov, Dobri Chintulov, Racho Stoyanov; the Dimitrov prize; Balkanika, the Balkan literature award of the Balkanika Foundation, etc.

Anton Donchev’s Vreme razdelno was translated into English as Time of Parting by Marguerite Alexieva in 1967.

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