* * * A great creative and civic work

The creators of artistic values ​​are a few people marked by fate, who cross the borders of many countries, inspiring more than one generation. The significance and the charming power of these creative personalities are all the greater and more comprehensive, the more organic the connection between artistic achievements and public behavior, between ideological-aesthetic insights and civic-ethical positions. Such people, like a beacon, attract the eyes of all who live with the impulses of a more intense spiritual life, possessed by higher ideals for social well-being and moral elevation. Readers turn to the work of such artists in order to become related to their soul and thinking, to find support for their torments and searches. Such a source of wisdom and knowledge, of ideological-aesthetic experiences and civic-humanistic ideals is undoubtedly the creative biography of Lyudmil Stoyanov, who has already crossed the last quarter of a century. For more than half a century, the personality of the writer and citizen Lyudmil Stoyanov has been towering in our literary and cultural life. It evokes love and gratitude not only in our country, but also among the cultural community of other countries. His life and creative path is truly rarely instructive. Many of the problems of the time, the anxieties and insights of several generations, the trends of our national literary and cultural development for decades have found embodiment in his work. Having gone through harsh trials, having paid tribute to the fashionable aesthetic trends of the beginning of the century, L. Stoyanov demonstrated ideological and moral stability, overcoming dangerous passions, in order to harden and rise later with all his stature as a humanist creator and a communist citizen.