Krum Pavlov Kyulyavkov (Bulgarian: Крум Павлов Кюлявков; February 1893 – 18 December 1955) was a Bulgarian writer, poet, journalist and Communist Party official.

Biography

Krum Kyulyavkov was born into the family of Pavel Kyulyavkov, a prominent activist of the Bulgarian community in Macedonia. He volunteered in the

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and after experiencing the horrors of that war, he began to engage in revolutionary activities. After the

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where he was wounded in battle, he joined the

Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) () was a Marxist, socialist political party in Bulgaria. The party's origins lays in 1903, after a split at the 10th Congress of the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party. The oth ...

, which was later named to the

Bulgarian Communist Party The Bulgarian Communist Party ( Bulgarian: Българска комунистическа партия (БΚП), Romanised: ''Bŭlgarska komunisticheska partiya''; BKP) was the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria f ...

(BCP). Kyulyavkov was close to other Bulgarian left-wing writers such as

Hristo Smirnenski Hristo Dimitrov Izmirliev (), known as Hristo Smirnenski, (September 17, 1898, Old Style and New Style dates, OS – June 18, 1923) was a Bulgarians, Bulgarian poet and prose writer who joined the Bulgarian Communist Party and whose works champio ...

and wrote for party newspapers and magazines. During the

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in 1923, he created an armed student illegal group in the high school. After the suppression of the uprising, he was forced to flee to Sofia. Kyulyavkov traveled to Austria in 1926 by the order of the BCP and shortly after to the Soviet Union where mostly lived in Kharkiv. He translated works from Russian and Ukrainian and worked with communist writers Marko Marchevsky and

Georgi Bakalov Georgi Ivanov Bakalov (Bulgarian: Георгий Иванов Бакалов; 7 November 1873 – 14 July 1939) was a Bulgarian literary historian, critic and public figure. Biography Bakalov was born on in Eski Zaara (now Stara Zagora), Ottoman ...

. During the purges he was arrested in 1938 and lived under house arrest, until he was rehabilitated in 1940 with the help of

Georgi Dimitrov Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (; ) also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (; 18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian communist politician who served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party from 1933 t ...

in 1940 and managed to return to Bulgaria, where he became active in the underground communist resistance and was tasked with becoming the head of the BCP's writers' committee. After the 1944 September coup, Kyulyavkov was involved in the suppression of literary and artistic opponents of the Communist Party in Bulgaria. In the same month, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the BCP's official newspaper, '' Rabotnichesko delo''. Kyulyavkov was the secretary of the Bulgarian delegation for the conclusion of the armistice in Moscow. He served as head of the Cultural Department at the Central Committee of the BKP from 1944 to 1947. He was an associate Professor and Rector of

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1950 to 1953. He was a member of the Writers Union of Bulgaria and received various awards such as the Georgi Dimitrov Award and Honored Worker of Culture.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kyulyavkov, Krum 1893 births 1955 deaths 20th-century Bulgarian male writers 20th-century Bulgarian poets Bulgarian journalists Bulgarian anti-fascists Bulgarian emigrants to the Soviet Union Bulgarian Communist Party politicians Bulgarian military personnel of the Balkan Wars Bulgarian dramatists and playwrights Bulgarian literary critics Bulgarian caricaturists Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery