Racho Stoyanov

Racho Stoyanov Genov-Dufev was a Bulgarian writer, playwright and translator. He started his literary career early, with publications dating back to 1904, and received important critical attention by already renown authors as Anton Strashimirov and Konstantin Velichkov.
Stoyanov’s first collection ‘Stories’ was followed by his most famous work, the popular drama ‘Masters’.
Stoyanov is normally placed along as a realist in the tradition of Yordan Yovkov. Being extremely demanding and doubtful regarding his own works is partly considered to be the reason to publish only one more work in his lifetime: the popular novella ‘Mother Magdalena’.
Although all of his works were met with critical acclaim and the writer himself was also an established translator he left a vast amount of unfinished works, including novellas, stories, dramas and articles. They were discovered and published posthumously in 1976, among them the novellas ‘Valchi Dol’ and ‘Doganovi’, as well as an unfinished memoir. He never married and his manuscripts were left over to his sister.
He studied and lived in Gabrovo, Varna and Sofia and a national literary prize on his name is awarded each three years.