Georgi Dzhagarov

After completing his primary education in 1940, he became a member of the Workers Youth League, and from 1944 – of the Bulgarian communist party.

While still a student, he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for anti-fascist activities, and was released after the Communist coup d'état.

[citation needed] In 1951 he graduated Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow.

Upon returning to Bulgaria, he became an editor at the Literary Front weekly, and was a playwright for the Youth Theater.

[4] In 1985 he was head of the Bulgarian delegation to visit Pope John Paul II in the Vatican.