Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov (Bulgarian: Никола Йонков Вапцаров; Macedonian: Никола Јонков Вапцаров, romanized: Nikola Jonkov Vapcarov; 7 December 1909 – 23 July 1942) was a Bulgarian poet and Bulgarian Communist Party activist. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he only ever published one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets. In the latter part of his life, as a Macedonian nationalist, he was the driving force of the Macedonian Literary Circle until World War II when it was disbanded, and its attempts t
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Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov (Bulgarian: Никола Йонков Вапцаров; Macedonian: Никола Јонков Вапцаров, romanized: Nikola Jonkov Vapcarov; 7 December 1909 – 23 July 1942) was a Bulgarian poet and Bulgarian Communist Party activist. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he only ever published one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets. In the latter part of his life, as a Macedonian nationalist, he was the driving force of the Macedonian Literary Circle until World War II when it was disbanded, and its attempts to awaken Macedonian identity were abandoned. Vaptsarov joined the resistance movement and because of his subversive activities in favor of the Soviet Union and against the Bulgarian government and the German troops in Bulgaria, he was arrested, tried, sentenced and executed the same night by a firing squad.
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Life He was born in Bansko, Ottoman Empire, (today in Bulgaria) in 1909 into a mixed Bulgarian Exarchist-Protestant family. His father was a participant in the anti-Ottoman struggles and member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). His mother was educated at the American College of Samokov and worked as a teacher. Vaptsarov was trained as a machine engineer at the Naval Machinery School in Varna, which was later named after him. His first service was on the famous Drazki torpedo boat. In this period, he embraced Marxism and spread the communist ideology during the 1930s. In April and May 1932, Vaptsarov visited Istanbul, Famagusta, Alexandria, Beirut, Port Said, and Haifa as a crew member of the Burgas vessel. In 1934, he joined the Bulgarian Communist Party. Later, he went to work in a factory in the village of Kocherinovo – at first as a stoker and eventually as a mechanic. He was elected Chairman of the Association, protecting worker rights in the factory. During this time Vaptsarov was devoted to his talent and spent his free time writing and organizing amateur theater pieces. He got fired after a technical failure in 1936. This forced him to move to Sofia,…
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In the late 1930s, Vaptsarov co-founded and directed the Macedonian Literary Circle, which promoted the idea of a Macedonian nation and language. According to him their aim was to analyse linguistic idioms, folklore, customs in order to stimulate Macedonian literature and to nurture revolutionary romanticism related to the IMRO as part of an artistic realism. Vaptsarov asserted that they need to affirm the Macedonians as a distinct people in front of the world. However, he continued writing only in standard Bulgarian. His only published poetry collection is Motor Songs (1940). According to Canadian-Macedonian historian Andrew Rossos, the cycle "Songs for the Fatherland" in the collection attests to his Macedonian national consciousness. At the end of 1940, he participated in the so-called "Sobolev action," gathering signatures for a pact of friendship between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. The illegal activity earned him an arrest and an internment in the village of Godech. In September 1940, he enthusiastically welcomed the news of the return of Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria, while in the Spring of 1941, after the invasion of Macedonia by Bulgarian troops, he declared himself as a Bulgarian in police investigation papers. The Macedonian Literary Circle disbanded itself in the spring…
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Legacy Post-war Bulgarian communist authorities revered him as an activist and revolutionary poet, presenting his poetry collection as an example of proletarian literature. His work was also widely published in Soviet-bloc countries. In 1949, the Bulgarian Naval Academy was renamed Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy. In 1953, he received posthumously the International Peace Award. His Selected Poems was published in London in the 1950s, by Lawrence & Wishart, translated into English with a foreword by British poet Peter Tempest. Vaptsarov Peak in eastern Livingston Island, Antarctica, is named after the famous Bulgarian poet. Vaptsarov's childhood home in Bansko and residence in Sofia are both museums. In Bulgaria, a prosecution office, journalists and social activists proposed a repeal of his death sentence. In August 1977, the People's Republic of Bulgaria sent a diplomatic note to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, protesting against the exploitation of his image in the Yugoslav media. A documentary about the "Macedonian revolutionary and poet" was broadcast on the first channel of Belgrade television. BCP's leadership condemned such cases as "crude attempts by the Yugoslav side to appropriate the work and image of the Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov and to distort the historical truth…"…
