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Dimitar Mantov was a Bulgarian historical novelist.[1]

Biography

He was born on October 13, 1930[2] in the village of Bosilkovtsi, Ruse region in a family of teachers. He received his primary education in his native village, graduated from high school in the town of Polski Trambesh. As a student he edited the youth literary magazines "Young Creator" (1945–1946) in Polski Trambesh and "Spring" (1947).[3]

Graduated Sofia University and initially worked as lawyer, and later as journalist and editor at Narodna Mladezh Publishing House and at the Center for Literary Information. He was author of the scripts for the documentaries "Old Manuscripts", "Balkan War", "Aleko Konstantinov" as well as author of mostly historical novels and several adventure novels. He passed away on July 28, 2008.[4]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Kaloyan, King of the Bulgarians (1958)
  • Ivan Asen, Tsar and Autocrat (1960)
  • The Stone Nest (1966)
  • The Great Day (1966)
  • Bandit's Blood (1969)
  • Evil Land (1970)
  • The Devil's Carousel (1971)
  • Crazy Heads (1972)
  • Khan Krum (1973)
  • Yuvigi Khan Omurtag (1974)
  • The Toothed Sun (1975)
  • Red Calendar (1976)
  • The Auls of Khan Omurtag (1976)
  • The Albigensian Legend (1977)
  • Prince Boris I (1978)
  • Carpetrovo time (1981)
  • The Hawk (1981)
  • Sign on a stone (1982)
  • The Winds Leave Traces (1982)
  • The Great March (1983)
  • South Bulgarian Chronicle (1985)
  • Haydut Velko (1985)
  • Via Mala (1985)
  • The Wolf Bridge (1987)
  • Haiduti walking on the sea (1988)
  • The Day of Redemption (1988)
  • Troubled Year (1990)
  • Abagar and the Witches (1999)
  • Night in Kabyle (2000)
  • The invisible rope (2002)

Romanized biographies

Stories

  • The Price of Silence (1962)
  • The Steps of Hope (1971)

Historical Essays

  • Horse to Horse, Young Man to Young Man (1962)
  • Wind echoes, Balkan moans (1963)
  • Old Capital Cities (1973)

He also wrote historical essays from the Father's Hearth Library - "Svishtov" (1962), "Elena" (1964), "Lyaskovets" (1965) and "Nessebar" (1965), bulgarian cuisine receipts in "Bulgarian Cuisine", as well as the children's book - "Tales for Holidays" (2005).

References

  1. ^ "Литературен свят – Dimitar Mantov at Literary World". literaturensviat.com. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  2. ^ Juliusz Stroynowski (1989). Who's who in the Socialist Countries of Europe: A Biographical Encyclopedia of More Than 12600 Leading Personalities in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia. I-O. Volume 2. Saur. p. 730. ISBN 978-3-598-10720-7. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  3. ^ Zdravko Cholakov, „High class writer (Dimitar Mantov - the fiction writer who paved the way in contemporary Bulgarian literature to the modern historical novel) ", Duma newspaper, October 5, 2005.
  4. ^ Dimitar Mantov at Luboslovie


Category:1930 births Category:2008 deaths Category:Sofia University alumni Category:Bulgarian historical fiction writers Category:Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages Category:Bulgarian biographers

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