Nikola T. Balabanov
1893–1966 (age 73)
Biography
Nikola T. Balabanov earned respect as a literary critic who carefully read the nation’s new voices and kept Bulgarian letters in dialogue with European currents.
He encouraged emerging writers, helped shape reading habits, and defended the value of thoughtful criticism as a vital part of cultural life, and readers still pay respects at his grave in Central Sofia Cemetery.