WHristo Botev, born Hristo Botyov Petkov, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and poet. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.
WDimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author.
WYordan Eftimov is a poet, writer and literary critic based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has six poetry books awarded with national literary prizes. First of them, Metametaphysics (1993), won the National Debut Prize.
WKrastyo Hadzhiivanov was a Bulgarian poet and resistance fighter.
WKrassin Valchev Himmirsky Bulgarian: Красин Вълчев Химирски, born on 8 October 1938 in Varbitza, Vratsa Province, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian poet and former career diplomat.
WIvan Hristov or Ivan Christoff is a Bulgarian poet, and critic.
WKiril Kadiiski is a Bulgarian poet, essayist and translator born on 16 June 1947. He is well known as a translator inside his native Bulgaria and is famous as a poet in France where he is director of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute. He has also been awarded a number of Bulgarian and international prizes: Ivan Franko (Ukraine) in 1989, the European Grand Prize (Romania) in 2001 and the Max Jacobs International Poetry Prize for his collected works (France) in 2002. He was awarded the title Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for achievements in the field of French culture by the French Government.
WTrayko Tsvetkov Kitanchev was a Bulgarian teacher, social figure, poet and revolutionary. In 1895, he was the first chairman of the Supreme Macedonian–Adrianopolitan Committee, a Sofia-based organization seeking the autonomy of Macedonia and southern Thrace.
WRumen Leonidov is a Bulgarian poet, translator, journalist and publisher. He has published nine books and received numerous Bulgarian as well as international awards for poetry. He was born in Sofia and earned a degree in Bulgarian philology from Plovdiv University.
WGeo Milev, was a Bulgarian poet, journalist, and translator. Geo Milev is perhaps best known for his epic poem Septemvri, written in the aftermath of the Communist-led September Uprising.
WDenis Olegov is a Bulgarian writer and journalist from Russian descent. Olegov has authored five books with poems and prose so far. The most recent is "A eternal foreigner".
WGrigor Stavrev Parlichev was a Bulgarian writer and translator. He was born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town January 25, 1893. Although he thought of himself as a Bulgarian, according to the post-WWII Macedonian historiography, he was an ethnic Macedonian.
WValeri Petrov, was a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin.
WLazar Poptraykov was a Bulgarian revolutionary (komitadji). He was also a Bulgarian Exarchate teacher and poet from Ottoman Macedonia. He was one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) in the region of Kastoria (Kostur) during the Ilinden Uprising. Despite his Bulgarian identification, per post-WWII Macedonian historiography he is considered as an ethnic Macedonian.
WPavel Chavdarov Tsvetkov is a Bulgarian poet and writer, best known for his Desperate Love poetry collection and the essay "Exules Suo Voluntate: Roots and Fruits of Bulgarian National Nihilism".
WIvan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria. The works of Ivan Vazov reveal two historical epochs - the Bulgarian Renaissance and the Post-Liberation epoch. Ivan Vazov holds the highest honorary title of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Academician. He acted as Education and People Enlightenment Minister from September 7, 1897 until January 30, 1899, representing the People's Party.
WRayko Ivanov (Yoanov) Zhinzifov or Rajko Žinzifov,, born Ksenofont Dzindzifi was a Bulgarian National Revival poet and translator from Veles in today's North Macedonia, who spent most of his life in the Russian Empire.