Valeri Petrov

Valeri Nisim Mevorah (Bulgarian: Валери Нисим Меворах; 22 April 1920 27 August 2014), better known as Valeri Petrov (Bulgarian: Валери Петров), was a Bulgarian poet, screenwriter, playwright and translator. He was active between 1945 and the 1990s. He wrote the screenplay for a movie called Yo Ho Ho in 1981. It was made into a movie again in 2006, called The Fall .

Petrov in May 2011.

Petrov was born in Sofia. His father was Jewish. During World War II, Bulgaria was (for a time) pro-Nazi so he used his non-Jewish mother's surname. He graduated in medicine from Sofia University in 1944. He was politically a leftist and socialist. Between 1947 and 1950, to continue his writing career he worked as a press and cultural attache and traveled to Rome, Italy. He also went to the United States, Switzerland and France.

He was a member of the Bulgarian parliament.

Death

Petrov died from a stroke on 27 August 2014 in Sofia, aged 94.[1]

References

  1. "На 94-годишна възраст почина големият Валери Петров". OFF News (in Bulgarian). 27 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.

Other websites


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.