1. 1978: Georgi Markov by Margaret Oscar

    Markov’s acute sense of social injustice creates intimate portrayals of life as a Bulgarian writer in the 50s and 60s – a life-threatening dilemma between conforming to communism’s artistic demands or retaining some semblance of integrity and self-expression. Today’s true injustice is that the nature of his death overshadows his work.



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