Жизнеописанието на Соня Краева-Кикменова и балканската женска автобиографична традиция
The life narrative of Sonia Kraeva-Kikmenova and the Balkan female autobiographical tradition

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines “An Autobiography of a Bulgarian Woman” – unpublished, but kept in her archive fund, life narrative of Sonia Kraeva-Kikimenova (1892-1985). She was a Bulgarian intellectual, journalist, translator and teacher, member of a lot feminist and pacifist societies. The analyses of the autobiography is done into four levels. Because of its wide documental base the autobiography is a valuable source for events and processes in Bulgarian history. It is among a few memoirs of Bulgarian women after the Liberation (1878) where besides the national narrative authors have concentrated on their own female personality and gender identity.

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