KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOV (1890-1970) was born in Sliven. Fiction writer, essayist, translator and artistic critic, he is one of the outstanding figures in Bulgarian cultural life during the first half of the 20th century. Winner of "Dobri Chintulov" prize, Konstantinov is also one of the most prominent Bulgarian translators from Russian and French. His works were published in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Slovenian, Serbian, Japanese.