Nikola Vaptsarov
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Nikola Vaptsarov (Bulgarian: Никола Вапцаров) (7 December 1909 - 23 July 1942) was a Bulgarian poet. He was born in Bansko to a Bulgarian nationalist militant father and an educated, pious Protestant mother. Trained as a machine engineer at the Machine School for the Navy in Varna, later Naval Academy, he worked blue-collar machinist jobs most of his life and wrote in his spare time. His acclaimed book of poetry is Motoring Verses (1940). Because of his underground communist activity against the government of Boris III and the German troops in Bulgaria, he was arrested, tried and executed by fire squad [1].
In 1949, the Bulgarian Naval Academy was renamed Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy. In 1952, he received posthumously the International Peace Award. His Selected Poems were published in London in 1954, by Lawrence & Wishart, translated into English with a foreword by British poet Peter Tempest.
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