Yordan Radichkov was born in 1929 in the village of Kalimanitsa in the Mihailovgrad region and graduated from high school in Berkovitsa. He has been on the staff of the newspapers Narodna Mladezh, Vecherni Novini, Literatouren Front. His first short stories were published in 1957, while his frst book, the collection of short stories The Heart Beats for the People appeared two years later. He has more than twenty-five books of prose to his credit - short stories, novellas and novels including: Simple Hands (1961), The Inverted Sky (1962); The Multicoloured Rug (1964), Hot Noon (1965); Fierce Mood (1965); Aquarius (1967); The Coat's Beard (1967), We, Sparrows (1968) A Gunpowder Primer (1969); A Small Motherland (1974j; All and None (1975); Memories of Horses (1975), The Sling, (1977); Si~q Small Matryoshkas and One Large (1977), A Northern Sagd (1980); The Tender Spiral (1984); Scandinavia (1985), Noah's Ark (1988). Yordan Radichkov has also written the plays January, Lazaritsa, The Basket, An Attempt to Fly which enjoy great popularity in Bulgaria and abroad. There are several films based on his screenplays. Many of his books have been translated into Russian English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Finnish and other languages.

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