Atanas Dalchev

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Atanas Dalchev

Occupation	Poet, critic, translator

Atanas Hristov Dalchev (also written Dalčev or Dalçev, Bulgarian: Атанас Далчев) (June 12, 1904 - January 17, 1978) was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translates poetry and fiction from French, Spanish, English, German and Russian authors. Recipient of the Herder Prize in 1972 (for his "...all over literary work...") and order "Znak Pocheta" (or Order of the Badge of Honor) in 1967 (for popularisation of Russian culture in Bulgaria).

He was born in Thessaloniki and graduated from high school in Sofia in 1922. His father Hristo Dalchev was a lawyer and represеnted Bulgarians from Macedonia in the Ottoman parliament.

Atanas Dalchev's Herder Prize, 1972

In 1926, Dalchev published his first collection called Prozorets ("Window") and graduated in pedagogics and philosophy at Sofia University in 1927. From 1945 until 1956, he was under pressure from the communist authorities and was forced to publish only translations.

He died in Sofia in 1978.

His works has been translated in French, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Russian, German, Italian, Polish, French, Spanish, and also in English, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Arabian, Swedish and some other languages in periodic or in literary medleys.