Anton Donchev

Political activity

Donchev was a co-founder of the "Consolidation" Committee consisting of up to 10 November 1989, and now to Bulgarian Socialist Party and former Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, writers, publishers and sports actors.

Personal life and death

Donchev's first wife is the Bulgarian chessmaster Evelina Troyanska. On his 79th birthday, Donchev married the 64-year-old Rayna Vasileva, a former journalist from the Bulgarian National Radio.

Donchev died on 20 October 2022, at the age of 92.

Writing career

His first independent novel, Samuel's Testimony, was published in 1961. His second book, Time of Parting, which dealt with Islamization in the Bulgarian region of Rhodopes in the 17th century. Written over a period of 41 days in 1964, the novel made the writer famous. The novel was translated and published abroad. He received a nomination from the Jane and Irving Stone Foundation for Best Historical Novel. The novel was adapted (the movie Time of Violence is divided into two parts with the subtitles "The Threat" and "The Violence") in 1987 by the director Lyudmil Staykov. In June 2015, Time of Violence was chosen as the most beloved film of Bulgarian viewers in "Laced Shoes of Bulgarian Cinema", a large-scale consultation with the audience of Bulgarian National Television.

Films

• "Time of Violence" (1988)
• "The Millions of Privalov" (1983)
• "Return from Rome" (1977)
• "On the Other Side of the Mirror" (1977)
• "Burn to Light" (1976)
• "The Packet" (1972)
• "Kaloyan" (1963)