site.btaBulgarian Intellectual Pierre Rouve Remembered at London Event

The Bulgarian Embassy and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in London with the assistance of the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) organized an evening dedicated to one of the prominent Bulgarian intellectuals and political emigrants in the UK in the second half of the 20th century, Petar Uvaliev (Pierre Rouve), the Embassy said on its website. 

Ambassador Tihomir Stoychev and BNT Director General Emil Koshlukov made the opening remarks and shared their memories of contacts with Petar Uvaliev. The programme included a screening of a film about Pierre Rouve by director Dimitar Sharkov.

Petar Uvaliev was a Bulgarian writer, publicist, screenwriter and director (1915-1998). He worked in the Press Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1936-1947). He served as secretary of the Bulgarian Legation in Rome (1942) and Second Secretary of the Bulgarian Legation in London (1947). In 1948 he emigrated to UK where he was known as Pierre Rouve. He began regular broadcasts for the BBC Bulgarian Service in London (1950). He taught philosophy and art history at the University of London and universities in the US, Italy, France and Germany. He translated into French and Italian the works of Bulgarian classics Pencho Slaveykov, Teodore Trayanov, Elisaveta Bagriana and Nikolai Marangozov, among others.

He was an honorary doctor of the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia (1992), and was decorated with the Order of the Madara Horseman, First Class (1994), the Ivan Vazov Medal of the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad (1995) and the Oborishte Award for intellectual work (1999, posthumously).