Georgi Slavov Karaslavov ( bg, Георги Славов Караславов) (12 January 1904 – 26 January 1980) was a

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writer born in the Debar district of the town of

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in Plovdiv Province. Several of his novels, including ''Snaha'', ''Tatul'', and ''Selkor'', were made into films.

Biography

Georgi Karaslavov was born in

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. After he graduates from the high school in

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, he moved to live in

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, and study in the Postal School. In 1923, he studied in a pedagogical school in Harmanli and continued his education by moving to Kazanlak. He took part in the September Uprising. Afterward, he signed up and graduated from Sofia University in 1928. Because of his short novel named "Selkor", he was sentenced and imprisoned by the anti-communist regime in

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at the time. Between 1947 and 1949 Georgi Karaslavov was the director of the Ivan Vazov National Theater.

Honors

A school in

is named for Karaslavov, and there is a bust of Karaslavov in the park behind Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia. A full size statue of Karaslavov has been placed in the town of Parvomay. There is the (National Literature Award "Georgi Karaslavov") named in his honor.

References

1904 births 1980 deaths Bulgarian male writers People from Parvomay Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences {{Bulgaria-bio-stub