Nikolai Haitov
writer
Nikolai Haitov was born on September 15th, 1919 in the village of Yavrovo in the Rhodope Mountains. He left Yavrovo at the age of fourteen to work for three years in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second city, before returning to the village to become a forester. In 1954, after more than twenty years in the forestry service, Haitov began to turn his experiences into literature; his collections of short stories (Tales From the Forest, 1956; Rivals, 1957; and Sparks From the Hearth, 1959), essays and historical works reveal and reclaim the cultural heritage of the Rhodope people.
Wild Tales, his most successful work, was published in 1967. It earned Haitov the Dimitrov Prize for Literature — Bulgaria's highest literary award — and in 1974 was voted the most popular work by any living Bulgarian author since 1945. Translations of Wild Tales have been published in Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Turkey.
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Filmography - As a Writer:
1970s •
| Year | Movie |
|---|---|
| 1979 |
Chereshova gradinaThere are essentially two types of people: those who th... [more] |
| 1977 |
Myjki vremenaThere were times when stealing girls in these lands has... [more] |
| 1974 |
Dyrvo bez korenAn elderly man is attaching a graft to a tree. He is Ga... [more] |
| 1974 |
LamqtaSet many centuries ago: a tree, proclaimed as being sac... [more] |
| 1972 |
Koziqt rogThe film sends us to the 18th century when Bulgaria was... [more] |
| 1971 |
Gola syvestThe film is set in the 1930s. The honest and incorrupti... [more] |
| 1971 |
IzpitThe begining of the 20th century. The young cooper Lio ... [more] |
| 1971 |
Kraqt na pesentaThe action took place in the Rhodope Mountains in the e... [more] |