Radoy Ralin(1923-2004)

Dissident poet whose satires inspired generations of Bulgarians during the country's totalitarian times. One of his most popular books, "Hot Peppers," contained humorous poems, anecdotes, and epigrams criticizing the communist regime. Soon after it was published in the mid-1970s, the work was seized from bookstores and destroyed by order of the Communist Party, and led to a seven-year publishing ban against the author.

Where politics starts, art ends.