Background
His father was Chief of Cabinet of King Boris III and was executed by the communists in 1945.
His father was Chief of Cabinet of King Boris III and was executed by the communists in 1945.
He was studying law in the University of Geneva when the communists seized power in his country in 1944. Groueff lived in exile for 46 years: first in Switzerland and later in France and the United States. He did not return to Bulgaria until 1990 after the collapse of the communist regime. He was a reporter for the "Paris-Match" magazine and after traveling extensively as a foreign correspondent, he became its New York Bureau chief for 20 years until 1978.
He also worked for Radio Free Europe, was a contributor to the Bulgarian Service of British Broadcasting Corporation and was active in a few emigre organizations and publications in exile.
He was the first Bulgarian to visit Antarctica as a journalist and to have set foot on the South Pole. After Mario Anton Weller, Mississippi-a Bulgarian Americanwho went to the Antarctic in 1971–1972 as chief of the expedition that installed there a satellite tracking station and antenna for the European Space Research Organization whose Directorate General was Hermann Bondi (the project was led by Umberto Montalenti director of European Space Agency"s Operation Center). and in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Groueff is the author of eight non-fiction books in French and English, three of which, Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb, Crown of Thorns, and My Odyssey were translated in Bulgarian. My odyssey has also its sad stages, but as a whole it is a lucky and happy one.".