Krum Penev

Krum Todorov Penev
Крум Тодоров Пенев
Born	(1901-12-31)December 31, 1901 Sofia, Bulgaria
Died	July 12, 1986(1986-07-12) (aged 84)
Political party	Communist Party of Bulgaria (since 1919)
Awards	Dimitrov Prize (1950) Honored Cultural Personality (1965) People's Cultural Personality (1975)

Krum Penev (31 December 1901 – 12 July 1986) was a Bulgarian poet, playwright, and translator. He was born from a volunteer from Shipka.

In 1920, he graduated from high school in Sofia. After graduating, he studied drama in Turin, Italy, from 1921 until 1923.

After studying in Turin, he then returned to Bulgaria, in which he had been a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party since its founding in 1919. He then become the editor of the newspaper "Vedrina" from 1935 until 1936, a legal publication of the Bulgarian Communist Party.

During World War II, due to its allegiance with the Bulgarian Communist Party, he was sent to the Krastopole concentration camp for 2 years, from 1941 until 1943.

After Bulgaria joined the Allies in the World War II, he was released from the concentration camp, and worked at the Ministry of Information from 1944 until 1945). He was also a playwright at the State Music Theater in 1946, and at the People's Army Theater in Sofia in 1947.

He was a member of the Union of Bulgarian Writers (Съюз на българските писатели).