Leda Mileva (1920 - 2013)

Leda Mileva, writer, translator, author of poems and plays for children passed away at 93 years. Leda died on her birthday - February 5. She was born in Sofia in 1920. She is a daughter of the Bulgarian poet Geo Milev. She graduated at the American College in Sofia and the Children’s Teacher Institute, and at the same time studied Law in the Sofia University. After the Second World War Leda Mileva worked as an editor in several publishers and as editor-in-chief of the Pionerska samodeinost (Pioneer Amateur Activities) magazine (1952-1955). Then she was a deputy director (1966-1967) and then a director (1967 - 1970) of the Bulgarian National Television. She was a standing representative of Bulgaria in UNESCO in Paris and a Member of Parliament in the Eighth and Ninth National Assembly and the Seventh Grand National Assembly. She is included in the Honorary List Hans Christian Andersen of the International Children’s Book Council. She has published more than 30 books with children’s poems. Her poems and works are translated and published in France, Germany, Russia, Belarus, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Syria and etc. Leda Mileva was awarded the medal Stara Planina (the Balkan) – First Class in 2006.