About Blaga Dimitrova
Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Блага Димитрова; 2 January 1922 – 2 May 2003) was a Bulgarian poet and the vice president of Bulgaria from 1992 until 1993. == Early life and education == Dimitrova was born on 2 January 1922 in Byala Slatina, Bulgaria. She graduated high school in Sofia in 1941. During the same year in autumn, she enrolled in the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, where she studied Slavic philology until graduation in 1945. She continued her studies at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, as she defended a dissertation on "Mayakovsky and Bulgarian poetry" in 1951. On her return to Bulgaria, she joined the editorial staff of the monthly magazine of the Bulgarian Writers' Association. In 1962 she joined the editorial staff of the association's publishing house, where she tried to publish the works of young authors who had fallen out of favour with the censors. == Intellectual career == In 1963, after the tirade against the country's intellectuals by the Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Todor Zhivkov, the publishing house suspended publications and Blaga left her job in protest and moved to another publishing firm. In 1965 she published her first book, Journey to Oneself.
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