Bulgarian Satirist Radoi Ralin Dies:
SOFIA (bnn)- Popular satirist Radoi Ralin, one of the few Bulgarian intellectuals, who had dared openly defy the former Communist regime, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 81.
Ralin died of a “prolonged ailment” at the Sofia military hospital, the family said.
His books with witty epigrams and aphorisms satirizing the ignorance and brutality of Communist rulers have made generations of Bulgarians laugh.
They have however cost Ralin seven years of publishing ban after 1968.
Many Bulgarians, who have lived under Communism, still remember his then heretic phrase: “I am not afraid of the minister of culture. I’m afraid of the culture of the minister.”
Radoi Ralin was his artistic pseudonym. He was born Dimitar Stefanov Stoyanov on Apr. 22 1923 in the town of Sliven, 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of Sofia.
Besides for his satire, Ralin was also known as author of film scenarios and plays and for his poetry that he started to publish back in the 1930s. His works have been translated in 37 languages. [...]
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