Valery Petrov Biography

Academician of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was born in a Jewish-Bulgarian family.

Father NISIM MOVOROV is an outstanding lawyer, a specialist in the field of family law, a lawyer, a public figure and a diplomat, an ambassador to the United States, a representative of Bulgaria to the UN, author of the book about Peyo Yavorov. Mother Maria Petrova is a French teacher in the capital's gymnasiums. She was born in Varna, and there, on Slavyanskaya Street, Valerie spent a vacation.

In the year, Valery Petrov graduated from the capital's Italian lyceum a gymnasium course. Baptized in the Sophia Church of the Evangelists, professor ... Nisim Mvora and his wife became Protestants and decided that the son would be called Valeri NISIMOV Petrov. At the age of 15, Valerie Petrov published his poem "Birds to the North" Bolg. Birds KM North, in the year his poems were published in the magazine Student under the Student take -off, and in the year the first book of Birds to the North under the pseudonym Asen Rakovsky was published.

In the future, he signs literary works by the name of his mother Petrov. Subsequently, he created the poems “Palechko” “Boy-S-firing”, “On the PT” “On the Road”, “Juvenes Duma Sumus”, “The edge of the Sinoto Sea” “The edge of the Blue Sea”, “Tavanski Personal” “Memory from the attic” and the cycle of verses of “tenderness” “Tenderness”. In the year, Petrov graduated from the medical faculty of Sofia University, and for some time led medical practice.

In the fall and winter of the year, after Bulgaria crossed the side of the anti -Hitler coalition, he worked on Sofia radio. In - gg. After that - a professional writer. The author of numerous poetic collections, of which the poem "Fatherland" Bolg is most famous. To Mekat Yesen; , Dimitrovsky Prize. High international recognition was received by a book for children "Five Tales" Bolg.

Pete orders. He translated into Bulgarian a four -volume meeting of the plays of William Shakespeare -, works of Redyard Kipling, Gianni Rodari and others. The author of the script of four feature films. Since school years, he had left -wing views and was a socialist. His work is inherent in an acute social orientation, ironicism, non-recognition of authorities, the refusal of the so-called cheers-patriotism.

The verses “Spring Walk” and “Japanese Island” are indicative in this regard. In the first of them, Valery Petrov showed the dark sides of his life in pre -war Bulgaria. In the second, he criticized the film “Naked Island” by the famous film director Kaneto Sindo. Valery Petrov was a convinced anti -fascist and never forgot about his Jewish origin. Detailed biography.