Boris Aprilov

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Aprilov left Bulgaria and spent the last three years of his life in Tel Aviv, Israel, with his family. In 1991, his younger daughter died after a battle with lung disease. Shortly after, Aprilov became sick himself; he died on 4 October 1995, in a Tel Aviv hospital. His wife also died a few months later in Tel Aviv.

From 1959 to 1963, Aprilov served as a lead dramaturge and screenplay editor in the Bulgarian State circuses.

In 1956, Aprilov traveled to London and Western Europe with his wife during the Cold War.

In 1947, Aprilov was invited by the poet Radoy Ralin to work as a columnist for the satiric journal Sturshel, and the family moved to Sofia.

Atanas Vassilev Djavkov, better known by his pseudonym Boris Aprilov (Bulgarian: Борис Априлов) (21 March 1921 – 10 April 1995), was a Bulgarian writer, playwright, dramaturge, satirist, and humorist, best known for his novels, plays, screenplays, and children's literature. He published works under the names Ahasver, Aho, and Ahoto, along with other aliases in the humorist journal Starshel.

Atanas Vassilev Djavkov, known as Boris Aprilov, was born on 21 March 1921, in the small Bulgarian town of Malko Tarnovo. His father Vassil's family lived on welfare in Lozengrad until the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turkish occupation. His mother, Nanka, was an illiterate orphan from a peasant family, given at a very young age to a much older disabled veteran in an arranged marriage.

In 1945, Boris Aprilov married Shela (Rachel) Abraham Cohen, born in Burgas (12 June 1918 – 2 September 1996, Tel Aviv). They met in the Burgas town library. They lived together and had two daughters: Djina Vassileva, born in Burgas on 15 November 1945, and Laura Vassileva, a writer born in Sofia (30 May 1950 – 2 September 1991, Hayfa, Israel).