[5] Her family migrated to Bulgaria from Albania due to a blood feud known as Gjakmarrje in Albanian.

[7] In 1946 she joined the National Academy of Arts studying painting in the classes of Prof. Dechko Uzunov and Prof. Iliya Petrov, but she did not graduate.

At the time, her work was met with criticism and resistances both from state authorities and the aesthetic preferences of her professors and other contemporary painters.

[2] Her first solo exhibition was in Sofia in 1967 but paintings were branded as avant-garde and the show was banned several days after it opened.

[10] She died on June 22, 2001, in Sofia from pneumonia, only a few days after the opening of her last exhibition, in the Cavallet Gallery in Varna.