Svetoslav Minkov

Background

Minkov was born in Radomir in 1902 in a military family.

Education

Minkov received his primary education in Radomir, and graduated from a high school in Sofia. He was later enrolled in a military college in Austria, where he studied the works of Goethe, Nietzsche, Edgar Allan Poe, Henrik Ibsen and the Russian classical authors.

Career

He published his first work - Newton"s binomial in the "Bulgaran" magazine in 1920. Minkov was known for his eccentric character and suffered from bizarre, paranoid phobias, pervasive obsessive thoughts and nightmares. He studied at Sofia University for a brief period of time before departing for Munich in 1922.

There he spent some of his best years, paying more attention to contacts with the local bohemians than to studies.

He came back to his native country in 1923, and started working as a librarian for the Steamship Cyril and Methodius National Library. Before 1942, Minkov visited a number of countries in Europe, Asia and South America.

Between 1942 and 1943 he worked in the Bulgarian embassy in Tokyo. After 1944, he began working in a number of Communist-oriented newspapers.

From 1954 to 1962 he was a chief editor at the "Bulgarski pisatel" printing house.

Minkov died in Sofia on November 22, 1966.

Works

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  • The lady with the X-ray eyes.
  • The Lady with the X-Ray Eyes