Geo Milev

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Geo Milev
BornGeorgi Milev Kasabov
(1895-01-15)January 15, 1895
Radnevo, Bulgaria
Died (aged 30)
Sofia
OccupationTranslator, poet, journalist
NationalityBulgarian
Notable worksSeptemvri
SpouseMila Keranova (married 1919–1925)
ChildrenLeda, Bistra
ParentsMilyo and Anastasia Milevi

Geo Milev

translator 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

, 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.

Self-portrait 1918

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

  1. ^ Bulgarian: Гео Милев
  2. ^ Bulgarian: Георги Милев Касабов
  3. ^ Bulgarian: Мильо
  4. ^ Bulgarian: Анастасия

References

  1. ^ "Кратък летопис на живота и творчеството на Гео Милев". Къща Музей "Гео Милев" Стара Загора (in Bulgarian). 5 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.

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