Peyo Yavorov

Peyo Yavorov
Born	(1878-01-01)1 January 1878 Chirpan, Ottoman Empire
Died	29 October 1914(1914-10-29) (aged 36) Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Lyric
Spouse	Lora Karavelova

Peyo Yavorov (

Most of his poems are

Later on he met Lora, the daughter of statesman Petko Karavelov. They were married, and the letters correspondence between them was considered evidence of their ardent and vivid love, and thus different from the relationship Yavorov had with Mina Todorova. In 1913, Lora shot herself and Yavorov tried to commit suicide. The bullet went through his temporal bone, which left him blind. In despair over the trial provoked by Lora's death and the rumor that he had killed her, Yavorov poisoned and then shot himself in autumn 1914, at the age of 36.

Honours

Yavorov Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Peyo Yavorov. In addition, a number of elementary (primary), middle and high (secondary) schools across Bulgaria also bear his name (e.g. the Peyo Kr. Yavorov Middle/High School in Plovdiv).^[1][2][3]

An elementary school in Yerevan, Armenia is named after Peyo Yavorov.^[4]

See also

• 24 SOU "P.K. Yavorov"

Notes

• Rozalia Hristova, "Road Scholars", in The Sofia Echo, 5 April 2001. Retrieved 6 July 2007
• "Bulgarian poems in the public transport of Washington, D.C.", Radio Bulgaria, 31 May 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2007
• Art Center Haskovo – "Peyo Yavorov", Cultural Community Center in Haskovo, Bulgaria.
• Tufarulo, G, M. Das Graue Elend – La fredda impenetrabile notte di Pejo Javorov, Roma: Passaporto, 2001.

External links

• Media related to Peyo Yavorov at Wikimedia Commons