Emiliyan Stanev

From an early age, his father would take him to his hunting outings in the open, which influenced Stanev's later work, where nature is often described.

In 1928, he finished the Elena high school as a private student and moved to Sofia, where he studied painting under Tseno Todorov.

In 1932–1944, he was an office worker of the Capital Municipality and in 1945 he was the director of the hunting reserve in the village of BukovetsStanev published his first works in 1931.

Stanev wrote tales involving animals, social and philosophical prose, historical novels and novelettes.

The novels Legend of Sibin, the Prince of Preslav (1968), Tihik and Naziriy, Antichrist (1970), The Queen of Tarnovo (1974), etc., all date to this period.