Background
She was born in Lom and received a Master"s degree in Slavic philology from Sofia University in 1935.
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Gancheva also studied French philology at the Sorbonne.
Career
Her name is also transcribed as Liuba Gantcheva. From 1942 to 1943, she co-edited the children"s magazine Blok with Professor Alexander Balabanov, her mentor and lover. Gancheva married another man in 1943.
Her poetry was translated into Esperanto, Czechoslovakian, Serbian and Ukrainian.
She travelled extensively in Europe and the Near East and wrote about her travels. Her historical novel Alexander of Macedon and the trilogy Balkans were published after her death.
She was found murdered in her home in Sofia in 1974.
Politics
Later in life, she was pressured to write poetry promoting communism but she instead chose to become a recluse.
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Bulgarian