Fani Popova-Mutafova: Life and Sufferings
Фани Попова-Мутафова. Житие и страдание
Language: Bulgarian
The book is devoted to the life and work of Fani Popova–Mutafova (1902—1977) — a Bulgarian author who is considered to have been the best-selling Bulgarian historical fiction author. The daughter of an officer, she was educated in Sofia and in Turin, Italy. From 1922 to 1925 she studied music in Germany. Her books sold in record numbers in the 1930s and the early 1940s. In 1936 she took part in the nationalist organization Ratniks and was considered one of their main ideologists. Popova–Mutafova joined the European Writers' League (Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung), which was founded by Joseph Goebbels. After the end of WWII she was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment by the Bulgarian communist regime because of her alleged "pro-German allegiance" and was forbidden to publish anything between 1943 and 1972.