
Rayko Nikolov Aleksiev was a Bulgarian painter, caricaturist, and writer of feuilletons. He established Shturets, a hugely successful satirical newspaper, in 1932.

Ran Bosilek, born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov, was a Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.

Assen Bossev was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian.

Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have been a disciple of Saint Methodius. After his death in 885, Constantine was jailed by the Germanic clergy in Great Moravia and sold as slave in Venice. After a successful escape to Constantinople, he came to Bulgaria around 886 and started working at the Preslav Literary School.

Ilko Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian jurist and poet, born on 23 December 1955 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He served as deputy defense minister of the Republic of Bulgaria (2003–2005). Member of the 40th National Assembly of Bulgaria. Member of the Bulgarian Writers Association.

Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet.

Georgi Džagarov was a Bulgarian playwright, poet, politician, and former chairman of the Bulgarian Writers Association. He also served as Vice-President of the Bulgarian State Council for eighteen years.

Vera Gancheva was a Bulgarian translator from Scandinavian languages, publisher, university lecturer and author of books, essays and scientific papers. She studied and worked at the Sofia University.

Sergei Simeonov Ignatov is a Bulgarian Egyptologist and politician, minister of education, youth and science from November 2009 to 28 January 2013.

Kiril 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.


Kina Kadreva was a Bulgarian author. She is best known for the children's book "The Milk Tree" from 1962, and "Dragon under a down pillow" from 1996.
Ruzha Lazarova is a Bulgarian French language writer who currently lives in Paris.

Rumen 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.

Leda Mileva was a Bulgarian communist, writer, translator and diplomat. She was the daughter of Bulgarian poet Geo Milev.

Čavdar Mutafov was a Bulgarian architect and writer, considered to be one of the leading expressionist writers in his country during the period between the two world wars. His first name also appears as Chavdar.
Alek Popov is a Bulgarian novelist, short story writer, essayist and scriptwriter, author of the novel Mission London.

Radoy Ralin, born Dimitar Stoyanov, was a famous Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.
Svetoslav Donchev Slavchev is a popular Bulgarian science fiction and mystery writer, famous also as a journalist. His best known science fiction works include the short novel The Fortress of the Immortal and the short story collections A Trail for Vega-Orion and A Sword with Rubbies. His most famous crime novels are: Nine, the Number of the Cobra and The Name of Death is Centaur. As the second editor of the widely read magazine Cosmos he invented and started publishing the riddle-like stories of the now famous police inspector Strezov. In the last years of his life he concentrated on this genre, as well as on this personage and there were two anthologies of his stories about Strezov published respectively in 2002 and 2010. His books are translated into Russian, German, Czech, Polish, Japanese etc. His awards include the prestigious Bulgarian national science fiction prize Graviton (2000) for his whole contribution to the genre. In 2018, an anthology of the best stories with inspector Strezov was published to commemorate the 50th anniversary from the character's creation, this time with the illustrations of the author's friend Alexander Vachkov.
Anton Strashimirov was a Bulgarian author.

Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.

Stefan Nedelchev Tsanev is a contemporary Bulgarian writer, known for his essays, plays, poems, and historical novels.

Emanuil Vaskidovich was a Bulgarian National Revival enlightener, the founder of the first secular school in the Bulgarian lands.

Yana Yazova was the pen name of Lyuba Todorova Gancheva, a Bulgarian intellectual and writer. Her name is also transcribed as Liuba Gantcheva.

Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova is a Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet.

Stoyan Zaimov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, apostle of the April Uprising, enlightener, public figure and writer. A native of Chirpan, he died in Pleven.

Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.