Blaga Dimitrova

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Blaga Dimitrova
Bulgarian poetess
Born	2 January 1922 Byala Slatina, Bulgaria
Died	May 2, 2003 (aged 81) Sofia, Bulgaria
Nationality	Bulgarian

Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Блага Димитрова) (2 January 1922–2 May 2003) was a Bulgarian poetess and Vice President of Bulgaria^[1] from 1992 until 1993. She was born in the town of Byala Slatina in the family of a teacher (her mother) and a lawyer (her father). Blaga Dimitrova was raised in Veliko Tarnovo and then moved to Sofia where she finished High School in 1942 and Slavic philology in the University of Sofia in 1945.

In the 1970s her works became more critical of the government and she received criticism for not being politically correct. Four books of her poetry books Dimitrova wrote in the 1970s, "Fireflies Fading", "Rubber Plant", "Questions", and "Hobbyada", were all rejected by state publishing houses with no reason given ^[2].

She died on May 2, 2003.