Vera Mutafchieva(1929-2009)

Vera Mutafchieva was a Bulgarian writer, novelist. Vera Petrova Mutafchieva was born on March 28q 1929 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a daughter of the historian Professor Petar Mutafchiev, a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1937. She graduated history at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (1951). The creative way of Vera Mutafchieva began in 1952with the studies on the history of Bulgaria in the Ottoman era. There are over 35 her books of fiction in numerous editions, some have been translated into 12 languages. Among the most famous of her artistic works are: "Chronicle of the Time of Unrest," "The Case Jam," "Last Shishmans", "Process 1973", "The Knight", "A card Game for two hands", "Tale Double Bottom", " Book about Sofronii "; " Alcibiades Small " and " Alcibiades Great "," Image Impossible", "The youth of Rakovski "," Foretold by Pagane "," bombs " , " Unity is strength " ," I, Anna Komnene "; collections of essays "And Clio is the Muse" , "White World", "Reactions", "And scary is, mother, and cheerfully" , "Habit Balkans" , "Let's say goodbye to the XX century", a collection of interviews "For now." Her career Vera Mutafchieva ends with the memoirs - "Unraveling my Father", "Family saga"; three parts "Occurrences" and the concluding "Fables". Selected her writings have been published in 12 volumes in 2008. She is the author of the play "The Way" played in the Youth Theatre and the play of Vasil Levski "The Process" which has not been staged. He is the screenwriter of "Khan Asparuh" and the movie "Minority". On the base of her novel " A card Game for two hands" is written the screenplay for the movie "Tough Love" (1974). She was awarded with the Grand Prix "Golden Rose" for the screenplay of "Khan Asparuh" at Film Festival in Varna (1982). She died on June 9, 2009 in Sofia.