Geo Milev
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Geo Milev | |
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Born | Georgi Milev Kasabov January 15, 1895 Radnevo, Bulgaria |
Died | (aged 30) Sofia |
Occupation | Translator, poet, journalist |
Nationality | Bulgarian |
Notable works | Septemvri |
Spouse | Mila Keranova (married 1919–1925) |
Children | Leda, Bistra |
Parents | Milyo and Anastasia Milevi |
Geo Milevtranslator and journalist. He is perhaps best known for his epic poem Septemvri, written during the Bulgarian September Uprising.
Life
Geo Milev was born Georgi Milev Kasabov in Radne mahale, today
modernist
magazine Везни (Scales), in Sofia. He contributed to the publication as a translator, theatre reviewer, director and editor of anthologies.
Death
On May 15, 1925, in the course of government reprisals following the
St Nedelya Church assault, Geo Milev, a member of the Bulgarian Communist party
, was taken to a police station for a "short interrogation" from which he never returned. His fate remained unknown for 30 years. In 1954 during the trial of General Ivan Valkov and a group of former police and military executioners, one of the defendants confessed how victims of the 1925 purge had been executed and where they were buried. Geo Milev had been strangled with wire and then buried in a mass grave in Ilientsi, near Sofia. His skull was found in the mass grave. His body was identified by the glass eye he was wearing after he lost his right eye in World War I.
Family
His daughter was the writer and diplomat Leda Mileva.
Works
He published his most famous poem September in his magazine Пламък (Flame) in 1924. It describes the brutal suppression of the Bulgarian uprising of September 1923 against the military coup d'état of June 1923.
Selected bibliography
- Milev, Geo, September, Brussel, 1984
- In Bulgarian
- Жестокият пръстен (1920), The Cruel Ring
- Експресионистично календарче за 1921 (1921), A Little Expressionist Calendar for the Year 1921
- Панахида за поета П. К. Яворов (1922), The Commemoration Ceremony for the Poet P. K. Javorov
- Иконите спят, (1922), The Icons Sleep
Honour
Milev Rocks in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica are named after Geo Milev.
Notes
References
- ^ "Кратък летопис на живота и творчеството на Гео Милев". Къща Музей "Гео Милев" Стара Загора (in Bulgarian). 5 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
External links
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