Bolgarsko-slovensko prijateljstvo v življenju in delih Zofke Kveder
The Bulgarian-Slovenian Friendship in the Life and Works of Zofka Kveder

Author(s): Katja Mihurko Poniž
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Recent History (1900 till today), South Slavic Languages, Culture and social structure , Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Zofka Kveder; Petko–Dimov; Slovenian–Bulgarian cultural contacts; Balkan wars
Summary/Abstract: The article explores a friendship between Slovenian writer, journalist and feminist Zofka Kveder (1878 – 1926) and Bulgarian scholar Petko Dimov (1875 – 1950). They met in the autumn of the year 1899 in Switzerland where they both studied and knew from the first moment that they had found a soulmate in each other. Kveder soon left Switzerland for Prague but they exchanged many letters at the turn of the century and in the time of Balkan wars (1912 – 1913). Already in her first longer text Študentke (The Female Students, 1900) Kveder wrote about Bulgarian students, especially female, who must have made a great impact on her. Since she shared a table with later renowned Bulgarian feminist Dimitrana Ivanova (1881 – 1960) in the guesthouse of Madame Fürst in Zürich, we can assume that she was one of the models for the protagonist of this short novel. In the story Spominjajte se! (Remember!) Kveder tells a story of her friendship with Dimov. His letters from the battlefields of Balkan wars inspired Kveder for her novellas about them. Her texts have been translated to the Bulgarian language in her time and recently by Ljudmil Dimitrov and her dramas and one–act plays have been studied by Bulgarian scholar Ljudmila Malinova-Dimitrova.

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