BIOGRAPHICAL ROLL OF HONOR OF
CONTINENTAL SHORT STORIES
Armenia
Aharonian, A. In the Shadow of Death.
Belgium
Picard, Edmond. Scenes Juridiques (The Juryman), etc.
Bulgaria
Gabe, Dora. Born in the Dobrudja. Has achieved great success in depicting the life of the peasants in the Dobrudja and their customs.
Karabyitcheff, Anguel. He is one of the youngest of the Bulgarian prose writers. He is only twenty-three. Born in a village near Lerino, the old capital of Bulgaria. By profession a chemist, Karabyitcheff analyzes successfully the souls of men. He published his first poems in various Bulgarian reviews and then short stories, including The Stone Bridge of the Rossitza, and The Eagles, which won for him last year a prize of 10,000 frs. from the Bulgarian Ministry of Education.
Czechoslovakia
Capek-Chod, K. M. Born in Domazlice in 1860. The great realist. Antonin Vondrejc, Turbin, Kaspar-Len-Vengeur.
Capek, Josef. Brother of K. Capek. Author, Lelio, Pro Delfina.
Dyk, Victor. Born in Sopka near Melnik in 1877. Deputy and editor of the magazine Lumir. Author, Konec Hackenschniduv.
Holecek, Joseph. Born in Stozice in 1853. The great writer of rural life. Nasi.
Majerova, Maria. The Golden Autumn. Born in Prague, 1898. One of the best of the younger school.
Sramek, Frana. Born in Prague in 1877. Representative of the younger generation. The Flesh, The Silver Wind.
Denmark
Rode, Edith. The wife of the poet Helge Rode. She has just celebrated her twenty-fifth anniversary as a Danish writer. Author: 1926: Kvinde, Hertes Baby, Hjerter.
Esthonia
Adamson, Hendrik. Writer of prose and poetry. Born in 1891. Published in 1926 a volume of short stories, Roheline Sisalik (The Green Lizard).
Kivikas, Albert. Suree vee Ajal.
Rhot, Richard. Born in 1891. Novelist and short story writer. Published in 1925 the novel Uksindus (Solitude) and the book of short stories, Neli Juttu (4 Short Stories). Vilme Kevad.
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