Fani Popova-Mutafova

[1][2] The daughter of Dobry Popov, an officer in the Bulgarian army,[3] she was born in Sevlievo and was educated there, in Sofia[2] and in Turin, Italy, where she also studied piano music.

She first published her work in the journals Vestnik na Zenata, Bulgarska misul and Zlatorog.

][citation needed] Popova–Mutafova joined the European Writers' League (Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung), which was founded by Joseph Goebbels in 1941/42.

[4] She was eventually sentenced to seven years of imprisonment by the Bulgarian communist regime because of her writings (her alleged "pro-German allegiance"), and though released after only eleven months for health reasons (asthma), was forbidden to publish anything between 1943 and 1972.

[1] She was married to another Bulgarian writer, Chavdar Mutafov [bg].