Bulgarian People Murdered Abroad - Georgi Markov, Nik Radev, Konstantin "Samokovetsa" Dimitrov (Paperback)

Chapters: Georgi Markov, Nik Radev, Konstantin "Samokovetsa" Dimitrov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Georgi Ivanov Markov (Bulgarian: ) (1 March 1929 11 September 1978) was a Bulgarian dissident writer. Markov originally worked as a novelist and playwright, but during 1969 he defected from Bulgaria, then a Stalinist state governed by President Todor Zhivkov. After relocating to the West, he worked as a broadcaster and journalist for the BBC World Service, the US-funded Radio Free Europe, and Germany's Deutsche Welle. He criticised the Bulgarian Stalinist regime many times by radio. It is speculated that, as a result of this, the Bulgarian government decided to dispose of him, and asked the KGB for help. He was killed on a London street after Bulgarian secret police fired a ricin-containing pellet into his leg. Georgi Markov was born on 1 March 1929, in Knyazhevo, a Sofia neighbourhood. During 1946 he graduated from high school and began university studies in industrial chemistry. Initially Markov worked as a chemical engineer and a teacher in a technical school. At the age of 19 years old he became ill with tuberculosis which forced him to attend various hospitals. His first literary attempts occurred during that time. During 1957 he published The Night of Celsius. Soon the novel The Ajax Winners (1959) and two collections of short stories (1961) were published. During 1962 Markov published the novel Men which won the annual award of the Union of Bulgarian Writers and he was subsequently accepted as a member of the Union, a prerequisite for a professional career in literature during the Stalinist times in Bulgaria. Georgi Markov started working at the Narodna Mladezh publishing house. The story collections A Portrait of My Double (1966) and T...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16699