The path of Lyudmil Stoyanov

With his creative work, Lyudmil Stoyanov fills more than six decades of the history of new Bulgarian literature - he published his first poems at the age of 19 in 1905 in the magazine "Artist", and even today, in 1968, he has not interrupted his writing work. Some will say: the long life of a writer inevitably covers several periods in the development of a literature. The difference with Lyudmil Stoyanov, however, is that he is not only present in these periods, but also most actively participates in them as a citizen and artist. The historian of Bulgarian literature in the 20th century will seriously struggle with which period to place him: Lyudmil Stoyanov cannot be absent from the development of our literature in the first decade of the century and the eve of the wars; in the period after the First World War he is one of the most active participants in literary life, and in the 30s he develops his enormous anti-fascist activity; The defeat of monarcho-fascism and capitalism brought him to his literary post, and for the third decade now he has been taking the most active part in building our socialist culture.