Vera Mutafchieva was born in
Sofia, March 28, 1929. Her parents were the historian prof.
Petar Mutafchiev and Nadia Triphonova. Mutafchieva was educated at
Sofia University. She obtained her PhD (1958) and DSci (1978) degrees at the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in Sofia. She was a senior researcher at various institutes of the BAS (Institute of History; Institute of Balkan Studies; Institute of Demographic Studies; Institute of Literature), and was elected vice-president of BAS (1993-1996). In 2004 she was elected a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research focused on the
Ottoman period on which she published dozens of studies in Bulgarian and European journals. Some of her monographs were published in the USA, Turkey, and Greece. Mutafchieva is the author of historical novels which have been translated into 11 languages. She was also the scriptwriter of the 1981 film
Khan Asparuh Her ashes were scattered in the
Aegean Sea near the Cape
Sounion. ==Awards==