Nikola Vaptsarov | |
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 Vaptsarov during his time in the Varna Naval Machinery School | |
| Native name | Никола Вапцаров |
| Born | 7 December 1909 Bansko, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 23 July 1942 (aged 32) Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Occupation | poet, activist of the communist resistance |
| Nationality | Bulgarian[note 1] |
| Notable works | Motor Songs |
Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov (Bulgarian: Никола Йонков Вапцаров; Macedonian: Никола Јонков Вапцаров, romanized: Nikola Jonkov Vapcarov; 7 December 1909 – 23 July 1942) was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary.[1][2][3] Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he only ever published one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets. Because of his underground communist activity against the government of Boris III and the German troops in Bulgaria, Vaptsarov was arrested, tried, sentenced and executed the same night by a firing squad.
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- ^ France, Peter (2000). The Oxford guide to literature in English translation. Oxford University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0198183594.
- ^ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Stephen Cushman et al., Princeton University Press, 2012, ISBN 1400841429, p. 169.
- ^ "The History of Bulgaria", The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations Series, Frederick B. Chary, ABC-CLIO, 2011, ISBN 0313384460, pp. 143–144.