Editing Historical fiction (section)

====Bulgaria====
[[Fani Popova–Mutafova]] (1902–1977) was a Bulgarian author who is considered by many to have been the best-selling Bulgarian historical fiction author ever.<ref name="Chance2005">{{cite book|author=Jane Chance| title=Women Medievalists and the Academy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5QrnjT2NT5MC&pg=PA501|year=2005|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-20750-2|pages=501–}}</ref> Her books sold in record numbers in the 1930s and the early 1940s.<ref name="Chance2005"/> However, she was eventually sentenced to seven years of imprisonment by the Bulgarian communist regime because of some of her writings celebrating [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], and though released after only eleven months for health reasons, was forbidden to publish anything between 1943 and 1972.<ref name="Segel2012">{{cite book|author=Harold B. Segel|title=The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WJ8rN0qlOa0C&pg=PA11|date=1 November 2012|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| isbn=978-0-8229-7802-2|pages=11–}}</ref> [[Stoyan Zagorchinov]] (1889–1969) also a Bulgarian writer, author of "Last Day, God's Day" trilogy and "[[Ivaylo]]", continuing the tradition in the Bulgarian historical novel, led by [[Ivan Vazov]]. [[Yana Yazova]] (1912–1974) also has several novels that can be considered historical as "''Alexander of Macedon''", her only novel on non-Bulgarian thematic, as well as her trilogy "''Balkani''". [[Vera Mutafchieva]] (1929–2009) is the author of historical novels which were translated into 11 languages.<ref name="Official site of Vera Mutafchieva">{{cite news |url=http://veramutafchieva.net/ |title= Official site of Vera Mutafchieva }}</ref> [[Anton Donchev]] (1930–) is an old living author, whose first independent novel, ''Samuel's Testimony'', was published in 1961. His second book, ''[[Time of Parting]]'', which dealt with the Islamization of the population in the Rhodopes during the XVII century was written in 1964. The novel was adapted in the serial movie "[[Time of Violence]]", divided into two parts with the subtitles ("The Threat" and "The Violence") by 1987 by the director Lyudmil Staykov. In June 2015, "[[Time of Violence]]" was chosen as the most beloved film of Bulgarian viewers in "Laced Shoes of Bulgarian Cinema", a large-scale consultation with the audience of [[Bulgarian National Television]].<ref>[https://www.bnt.bg/bg/a/lachenite-obuvki-na-ba-lgarskoto-kino-35583 "Time of Parting" is the favorite film of Bulgarian viewers "] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021073812/https://bnt.bg/bg/a/lachenite-obuvki-na-ba-lgarskoto-kino-35583 |date=2022-10-21 }}, BNT, 7 June 2015</ref>