shared this home with his third wife Fransi Kevork Bahchedzhian, pseudonym Sevda Sevan. Varban and Fransi spent 20 years together in Sofia and Ahtopol, near the Turkish border where they both wrote their best novels. He was a member of the Bulgarian Union of Writers . In his life he dreamt of escaping from the stifling city to venture out to the oceans, the eternal sway of waves, the vast expanse, the connection man makes with the eternal in himself. In his last novel he wrote: ″Each of us who has been on this earth is a tiny enigma frequently unspoken for various reasons and is just a one-way passenger who comes and goes seldom leaving some tangible trail. All of us in the final reckoning, no matter how vain, are merely dust for the wind, to be blown about whilst yet alive along with all our absurd passions, misapprehensions, intolerances, manias for achieving justice, fears, tom-foolery....″ He died in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1998. Published works Soldier's Chronicles (1948)" Out of love short novel (1957)" The old boatswain narrates short stories for teenagers (1960)" The coast of the poor novel 1st ed.(1964), 2nd ed."Profizdat" Sofia (1989)" Anya (1967) Islanders Sofia (1968) Letters from the sea Sofia (1969–1984) The seal cub novelette for children Sofia (1969) Flagman 1st ed.(1972), 2nd ed. Vol.II Sofia "Bulgarian Writer" (1984) The Great Bitter Lake 1st ed.(1979), 2nd ed. Vol.I "Bulgarian Writer", (1984) Cricket on the Pole 1st ed.(1982), 2nd ed. "Bulgarian Writer" Sofia (1984) On a boat to Ararat c/o Jusautor Sofia "Profizdat" (1985) Death in Lauderdale, Sofia, "Bulgarian Writer" (1989) In the fog–the Bulgarian and the sea Sofia "Letopisi", (1992) Hostage and fugitive bound nowhere, Publisher "Fatherland", (1997) Anthology-Bulgarian Marine Novelists, Varban Stamatov, Georgi Ingilizov, Emil Markov, Boris Aprilov, Atanas Stoichev, Jivko Angelov, Konstantin Ploshtakov, Kosta Radev, Nikola Radev, Peyu Bogdanov, Petar Kazalarski, Slavcho Chernishev, Tihomir Yordanov, Todor Velchev, Zvetan Minkov, Sofia University Publisher "St.Clement of Ochrid" (2002) References Further reading ″Литературен Фронт″ 26 July 1984 Тодор Янчев ″Творчество, свързано с живота и морето″ Literary Front 26 July 1984, Todor Yanchev "Creativity connected with life and the sea" ″The sea and the ocean are symbols of the vast and the boundless, of the rigorous life, which the marine novelist deeply knows and loves. The essayistic manner of exposition in "Cricket on the Pole" brings cordiality to the images and represents a peculiar "moral biography