figure in Bulgaria's public life – a member of the Union of Bulgarian Writers since 1962, he was elected MP for the Bulgarian Socialist Party in 2001, but quickly resigned in disagreement and spent the last years of his life increasingly withdrawn from politics. Radichkov's works have been translated in more than 30 languages and in 2001 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Honour Radichkov Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Yordan Radichkov. References External links Web page dedicated to Radichkov UNESCO Courier Interview: "Yordan Radichkov: the improbable Bulgarian" 1929 births 2004 deaths Bulgarian writers People from Montana Province Order of the Polar Star