Nikola Vaptsarov

Bulgarian writer

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Nikola Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet known for his engagement with themes of socialism and the machine age. He was among the literary left who emerged after World War I. Vaptsarov tragically died as a martyr in the anti-Nazi resistance, but not before publishing works like "Motor Songs" (1940) and "Selected Verses" (1946). His poetry reflected a hopeful outlook towards the dawn of socialism and the advancements of the industrial era.1

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…and later, the young, gifted Nikola Vaptsarov, who died a martyr in the anti-Nazi resistance, but not before he had hailed the dawn of Socialism and the machine age in his poems Motorni pesni (1940; “Motor Songs”) and Izbrani stihotvoreniya (1946; “Selected Verses”).
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…and later, the young, gifted Nikola Vaptsarov, who died a martyr in the anti-Nazi resistance, but not before he had hailed the dawn of Socialism and the machine age in his poems Motorni pesni (1940; “Motor Songs”) and Izbrani stihotvoreniya (1946; “Selected Verses”).
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