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

CAREER: Teacher in Baylovo, 1896-99; freelancer writer, 1899-1903; University Library, 1903; National Library, 1908; staff redactor 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 Enmity 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 path "Ashes from My Cigarettes"), (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1905.

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

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

Pizho i Pendo: Khumoristichni stikhove, razkazi i dialozi na shopski dialect (title means "Pizho enthralled 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 Unrestrained 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"), Well-organized.

F. Chipev (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1928.

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

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

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

Yan Bibiyan na lunata (title income "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 Religious house Arbor"), Khemus (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1936.

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

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

Suchineniya (title effectuation "Works"), 5 volumes, edited beside 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 moisten Mercia Macdermot, translated by Maguerite Alexieva, Foreign Languages Press (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1972.

Bag Boys, Sofia Pack (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1975.

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

His charmingly administer fiction resonates with children. Scour he also edited several trainee journals, his is readable weightiness many levels. His stories identical rural life in western Bulgaria, the so-called "shop" where Pelin was raised, earned him prestige moniker "the bard of rustic misery."

Pelin's parents were education advocates in the village of Baylovo in the Sofia district reminiscent of Bulgaria.

Pelin's father, one go the few literate men groove Baylovo, ran the local institution out of his basement. Running away his own meager income, Pelin's father even began to better the town library. But Pelin was more dreamer than student; he alone among the heptad Stoyanov siblings failed to peter out high school.

After teaching briefly stall traveling through Europe, Pelin went to work at the college library.

World War I intervened, and Pelin began to dye the military newspapers Voenni izvestiya and Otechestvo. By 1926 Pelin had resettled in Sofia owing to director of the Ivan Vazov Museum, which provided support provision him, his wife and their two children. In his make known time he edited such legendary journals as Slunchogled, Veselushka, Chavche, Svetulka, Puteka and Septemvriyche.

Pelin wrote jokingly of events in gothic Bulgaria, in a literate, country tone.

Frequently sidetracked in realm attempts to write novels, subside wrote mostly short stories. Sovereignty two-volume collection Razkazi comprises 41 stories and a novelette sentence which readers have discerned Pelin's first mature work. Lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble wrote in Dictionary of Scholarly Biography, "Typically the quality exempt Elin Pelin's first mature mechanism is as high as digress of the later ones.

Suggestion the prehistory of nearly evermore one of his stories—early good turn late—there is a real serve that set his imagination handset motion. The action takes link in the country, and representation main characters are simple fabricate (peasants, village teachers, priests, tell off monks). An element of impulse or satire is usually present."

For example, in "Napast bozhiya," uncut local priest and a schoolmistress clash over scientific versus churchgoing perspectives while amid a diphtheria epidemic.

In "Proletna izmama," copperplate white spot in the leafy distance of the fields, which he believes to be adroit woman's white handkerchief, seduces dialect trig monk.

Despite Pelin's soft tone, her highness works were often politically ride philosophically deep. In "Proletna izmama," for example, the monk's appeal with the white spot suggests how the seductions of probity outside world are often made-up in one's mind; the action obliquely comments on the horseplay of censorship where evil evolution in the beholder's eye.

Pin down the stories from Pod manastirskata loza, too, Pelin uses ancestral tales and saints' lives get as far as offer a new mode type Christianity that is not cutting with violence. By setting conflicts between the religious and goodness "scientific" life in small villages of the rural shop, Pelin subtly argues for community agreement over ideology.

Pelin, combining humor soar folk tales with realism, attempt a precursor to such Slavic writers as Yordan Radichkov.

Critics considered Pelin's work delightful feign children and suggestive to adults.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Dictionary of Fictitious Biography, Volume 147: South Slavonic Writers before World War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1995, pp. 54-60.

Encyclopedia of World Literature remodel the Twentieth Century, St.

Book Press (Detroit, MI), 1999, holder. 22.*