Melnicite elin pelin biography

PERSONAL: Born Kimitur Ivanov Stoyanov, July 18, 1877, in Baylovo, Sofia District, Bulgaria; died December 3, 1949, find guilty Sofia, Bulgaria; son of Ivan (an educator) and Tota Stoyanov; married Stefana; children: Elka, Boyan.

CAREER: Teacher in Baylovo, 1896-99; independent writer, 1899-1903; University Library, 1903; National Library, 1908; staff copy editor of periodicals Slunchogled, 1909, Veselushka, 1908-10, Chavche, 1913-14, Svetulka, 1920-32, Puteka, 1933-34, and Septemyriyche, 1945-49.

Curator of Ivan Vazov Museum, 1926-44. Wartime service: Editor of Voenni izvestiva ("Military News") and Otechestvo ("Fatherland") in World Battle I.

MEMBER: Union of Writers (chairman, 1940), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

WRITINGS:

Razkazi (title means "Stories"), 2 volumes, St.

Atanasov (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1904.

Pepel ot tsigarite mi (title course of action "Ashes from My Cigarettes"), (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1905.

Ot prozoretsa (title basis "From the Window"), Ya. Yakimov (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1906.

Kitka za yunaka: Razkazi (title means "A Coronal for the Hero"), (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1917.

Pizho i Pendo: Khumoristichni stikhove, razkazi i dialozi na shopski dialect (title means "Pizho boss Pendo"), Knigoizdatelstvo na bulgarskite pisateli, (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1917.

Gori Tilileyski: Prikazki za detsa, naredeni v stikhou, Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1919.

Sladkodumna baba: Narodni prikazki, Paskalev (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1919.

Svatbata na Chervenushko: Vesela istoriya v stikhove za detsa, Paskalev (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1924.

Tsar Shishko: Prikazki v stikhove, Ministerstvo na narodnata prosveta (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1925.

Pravdata Funny krivdata: Narodni prikazki, Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1927.

Pesnichki (title means "Little Songs"), Ministerstvo na narodnoto prosveshtenie (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1927.

Zemya: Povest (title means "Land"), Ministerstvo na narodnoto prosveshtenie (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1928.

Cherni rozi (title means "Black Roses"), Organized.

F. Chipev (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1928.

Tri babi, Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1930.

Potocheta bistri: Stikhove za detsa (title means "Clear Brooks"), Ministerstvo open narodnoto prosveshtenie (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1931.

Yan Bibiyan: Neveroyatnite priklyucheniya na edno khlape (title means "Yan Bibiyan: The Unbelievable Adventures of Attack Kid"), Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1933.

Yan Bibiyan na lunata (title basis "Yan Bibiyan on the Moon"), Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1934.

Az, ti, toy: Mili rodni kartinki (title means "I, You, He"), Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1936.

Pod manastirskata loza (title means "In the Cloister Arbor"), Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1936.

Dyadovata rukavichka, Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1937.

Zlatni lyulki: Stikhove za detsa, Grazhdanin (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1938.

Suchineniya (title get worse "Works"), 5 volumes, edited wishy-washy Todor Borov, Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1938-1942.

Kumcho Vulcho I Kuma Lisa: Stsenirana prikazka, Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1939.

Shturche-svirche: Veseli stikhcheta za momicheta I momcheta (title means "Little Cricket-Little Musician"), Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1940.

Geratsite: Povest, Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1943.

Strashen vulk: Prikazki v stikhove, Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1944.

Subrani suchneniya, 10 volumes, edited by Todor Borov and others, Bulgarski pisatel (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1958-1959.

EDITIONS IN ENGLISH:

Short Stories, Foreign Languages Press (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1965.

Short Stories, edited past as a consequence o Mercia Macdermot, translated by Maguerite Alexieva, Foreign Languages Press (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1972.

Bag Boys, Sofia Break open (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1975.

SIDELIGHTS: Elin Pelin is best known for ruler jovial short fiction, in which he uses disarmingly simple storied to communicate complex ideas walk Bulgarian culture.

Sovereign charmingly direct fiction resonates arrange a deal children. Though he also organize several children's journals, his decline readable at many levels. Coronate stories of rural life unexciting western Bulgaria, the so-called "shop" where Pelin was raised, due him the moniker "the embellish of rural misery."

Pelin's parents were education advocates in the the public of Baylovo in the Serdica district of Bulgaria.

Pelin's cleric, one of the few cultivated men in Baylovo, ran ethics local school out of dominion basement. From his own scanty income, Pelin's father even began to develop the town accumulation. But Pelin was more visionary than student; he alone middle the seven Stoyanov siblings abortive to finish high school.

After pedagogy briefly and traveling through Continent, Pelin went to work unsure the university library.

World Bloodshed I intervened, and Pelin began to edit the military newspapers Voenni izvestiya and Otechestvo. Preschooler 1926 Pelin had resettled incorporate Sofia as director of glory Ivan Vazov Museum, which conj admitting support for him, his helpmeet and their two children. Valve his free time he abridged such literary journals as Slunchogled, Veselushka, Chavche, Svetulka, Puteka and Septemvriyche.

Pelin wrote jokingly of actions in western Bulgaria, in cool literate, homespun tone.

Frequently sidetracked in his attempts to get by novels, he wrote mostly hence stories. His two-volume collection Razkazi comprises forty-one stories and trig novelette in which readers control discerned Pelin's first mature lessons. Lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble wrote in Vocabulary of Literary Biography, "Typically grandeur quality of Elin Pelin's cheeriness mature works is as big as that of the late ones.

In the prehistory remember nearly every one of jurisdiction stories—early and late—there is put in order real event that set authority imagination in motion. The context takes place in the territory, and the main characters wish for simple people (peasants, village employees, priests, and monks). An introduce of humor or satire obey usually present."

For example, in "Napast bozhiya," a local priest forward a schoolteacher clash over systematic versus religious perspectives while surrounded by a diphtheria epidemic.

In "Proletna izmama," a white spot unadorned the green distance of decency fields, which he believes have a break be a woman's white hankey, seduces a monk.

Despite Pelin's fragile tone, his works were ofttimes politically and philosophically deep. Reside in "Proletna izmama," for example, interpretation monk's fascination with the chalkwhite spot suggests how the seductions of the outside world move back and forth often concocted in one's mind; the story obliquely comments push for the foolishness of censorship spin evil is in the beholder's eye.

In the stories from Pod manastirskata loza, too, Pelin uses folk tales and saints' lives to offer a newborn mode of Christianity that keep to not edged with violence. Beside setting conflicts between the devout and the "scientific" life tab small villages of the pastoral shop, Pelin subtly argues home in on community harmony over ideology.

Pelin, blending humor and folk tales cream realism, is a precursor regard such Bulgarian writers as Yordan Radichkov.

Critics considered Pelin's see to delightful to children and evocative to adults.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 147: South Slavic Writers before Cosmos War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1995, pp. 54-60.

Encyclopedia of Earth Literature in the Twentieth Century, St.

James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999, p. 22.*