“Вечната и святата” / “The Еternal and the Holy”
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Autor:
Elisaveta Bagryana
Country:
Bulgaria (BG)
Book Theme:
Poets representing your country poetry
Publisher:
Zahariy Stoyanov
Publishing Year:
1927
Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva was born on April 16, 1893, in Sofia, Bulgaria, in a clerk’s family. It was after World War I ended that she truly entered into the literary world, at a time when poetry was undergoing a transformation. By 1921, she was already active in the literary life, and was collaborating on the “Newspaper of the Woman” and the magazine “Modernity”, among other publications. Her poems have been translated into 30 languages and published in France, Romania, Italy, Sweden, Poland and more.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
With the arrival of her first book, The Eternal and the Holy (Вечната и святата, 1927), she earned the confirmation of her peers. She also started writing children’s stories. Her poems are straightforward, sensitive and serious, as in The Well, a fable-like piece relating a well she dug when a little girl to the wellspring of poetry in her soul. They often are undeniably feminine – as in the poem The Eternal, in which the writer contemplates the body of a dead mother, or Evening Prayer – and spirited, as shown by the youthful, rebellious spirit in The Elements.
