Assen Bossev

Assen Bossev () (22 November 1913 – 24 April 1997) was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian. He was born in the village of

Ruska Bela Ruska Bela ( bg, Руска Бела) is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Mezdra Municipality, Vratsa Province Vratsa Province ( bg, Област Враца ''Oblast Vraca'', former name Okrug, Vraca okrug) is a Bulgarian province lo ...

Vratsa region Vratsa Province ( bg, Област Враца ''Oblast Vraca'', former name Vraca okrug) is a Bulgarian province located in the northwestern part of the country, between Danube river in the north and Stara Planina mountain in the south. It is n ...

. He was educated there as well as in the town of Berkovitsa. Afterwards Bossev was a teacher for a certain period of time. He settled in Sofia, where he graduated in law and diplomacy. Soviet Russian poet

Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya Yelizaveta Yakovlevna Tarakhovskaya (russian: Елизаве́та Я́ковлевна Тарахо́вская; 1891–1968) was a Russian poet, playwright, translator, and author of children's books. She is most known for her play '' By the Pik ...

translated most of Bossev's poetry into Russian. 1913 births 1997 deaths Bulgarian children's writers Bulgarian male writers People from Vratsa Province {{Bulgaria-writer-stub