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Latchezar Stantchev (Template:Lang-bg) (September 12, 1908 - March 13, 1992) a Bulgarian poet who first became famous in the 1930s. He is also a well-known translator, journalist, and publisher of children's magazines.

Early life

He was born on September 12, 1908 in the resort town of Varshetz, located in North-west Bulgaria. In 1930, Latchezar Stantchev published his first collection – Bezshumni dni (Silenced day). 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. He passed away in 1992 in Sofia.

Collections

• Bezshumni dni (Silenced day), 1930.
• Prolet na bulevarda, 1933.
• Hora po strehite, 1935.
• Zemja pod slance, 1939.

External links

• some of his poems (site in Bulgarian) [1]