Latchezar Stantchev () is a Bulgarian poet who first became well-known in the 1930s. He is also a well-known translator, journalist, and publisher of children's magazines. He was born on September 12, 1908, in the resort town of Varshetz, located in North-west Bulgaria. He died on March 13, 1992, in Sofia. Latchezar Stantchev graduated from Sofia University with a major in French Philology and specialized in French Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1937 to 1939. While in Paris, he was the correspondent of the Bulgarian newspaper Zarya. He was the founder and general editor of the Slaveyche children's magazine (1957-1968), 120,000 issues of which were published monthly.

Short bibliography

Bezshumni dni (Silent days), 1930

Prolet na boulevarda (Printemps sur le boulevard), 1933

Hora po strehite (Gens sur les toits), 1935

Zemya pod slantse (Terre sous le soleil), 1939

Vlubeni bulevardi (Les boulevards), 1993

Paris pod slantse (Paris sous le soleil), 1998

External links

Some of his poems (in Bulgarian) Лъчезар Станчев

References

1908 births

1992 deaths

Sofia University alumni

University of Paris alumni

Bulgarian male poets

Bulgarian translators

20th-century translators

20th-century Bulgarian poets

20th-century male writers

Lachezar Stanchev