Elisaveta Bagryana

Elisaveta Bagryana (; 16 April 1893 – 23 March 1991), born Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva , was a Bulgarian poet who wrote her first verses while living with her family in Veliko Tarnovo in 1907–08. She, along with Dora Gabe (1886–1983), is considered one of the "first ladies of Bulgarian women's literature". She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Life

Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva was born on April 16, 1893, in Sofia, Bulgaria, in a clerk's family.

Bagryana was a friend of communist activist Pétar Russév, father of Brazilian politician Dilma Rousseff, who won election as Brazil's first female President on 31 October 2010.

Works in English

Penelope of the twentieth century: selected poems of Elisaveta Bagryana translators Brenda Walker, Belin Tonchev, Valentine Borrisov, Forest, 1993. Voices of Sibyls: Three Bulgarian Poets--Elisaveta Bagryana, Nevena Stefanova, Snezhina Slavova, Translator Yuri Vidov Karageorge, Morris Pub., 1996.

Awards and honours In 1943, 1944, and 1945 she was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature. In 1969, she won a gold medal from the National Association of Poets in Rome. Bagryana Point in Antarctica is named after Elisaveta Bagryana.