Asen Raztsvetnikov

Asen Raztsvetnikov (Asen Kolarov – real name) is Bulgarian poet, author and translator, born on 2 November 1897 in Draganovo village, in Veliko Tarnovo region. He went to high school in Veliko Tarnovo, and graduated from the Sofia University in Slavic philology and law. He continued studying in Vienna and Frankfurt. He worked as a teacher and lawyer. From 1917 he was writing poems, feuilletons, comic stories and scenes. After the so-called September uprising he published his works in the New Way Magazine, where he worked together with N. Furnadzhiev, A. Karaliichev and G.Tsanev. In 1924 A Raztsvetnikov issued his book of poetry Zhertveni Kladi and after a deep crisis in his conceptions – the poem Dvoinik (1927). After a couple of years in 1934 he published also Planinski Vecheri. He wrote a lot of children books: Yunak Gogo (1934), Ot nishto neshto (1932), Horovodets Pataran (1936), Komar I Metsana (1946), Shturchovoto Konche (1948), Sgovorna Druzhina (1950), Shto e to (1956), Yunachina (1968) etc. He translated works from Goethe, Molier and other well-known authors and he wrote about the translation technics. He died on 30 July 1951 in Moscow.