Stefan Nedelchev Tsanev ( bg, Стефан Неделчев Цанев; born 7 August 1936) is a contemporary
Bulgaria
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n writer, known for his
essays
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,
plays
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,
poems
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, and
historical novels
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.
His books include ''Ubiytsite sa mezhdu nas'' ( bg, Убийците са между нас; ''The killers are among us''), and his plays, ''Istinskiyat Ivaylo'' ( bg, Истинският Ивайло; ''The true Ivaylo''), which was banned.
Tsanev's latest four-volume work, ''Bulgarian Chronicles'', uncovers previously hidden facts, added to the well-known, in Bulgaria's history: 2137 BC to the present.
[Stefan Tsanev "Bulgarian Chronicles" Vol.1 Plovdiv, Publisher "Trud", 2006, ]
References
1936 births
Living people
Bulgarian writers
People from Ruse, Bulgaria
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