(1909 - 1965)
Dimitar Dimov was born in Lovech. He studied at the First College for Boys in Sofia and graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Sofia University. In 1953 he became professor of anatomy, embryology and histology of vertebrates at the Higher Institute of Agriculture Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia. Since 1942 Dimov began publishing short stories, travelogues, excerpts of novels and plays in a range of newspapers – Literaturen glas, Literaturen front, Mir, Narodna kultura, Otechestven front; in magazines such as Septemvri and Teatar. Since 21 March 1964 till his death he was president of the Bulgarian Union of Writers.
Dimitar Dimov is author of the novels Poruchik Bents [Lieutenant Bents] (1938), Roman bez zaglavie [Untitled Novel] (unfinished, published in 1967 in the journal Plamak), Osadeni dushi [Doomed Souls] (1945), Tyutyun [Tobacco] (1951/1954/1955), of short stories, travelogues and plays (Zheni s minalo [Women with a Past], 1959; Vinovniyat [The Guilty One], 1961; Pochivka v Arko Iris [Vacation in Arco Iris], 1964).
The story involving Dimitar Dimov’s Tobacco is among the most illustrative examples of the cultural climate in Bulgaria during the communist period (the writer was forced to rework the text so as to meet the requirements of the political regime). It was only in 1992 that the novel was published in its original form – without the scenes and characters added under the pressure exercised by dogmatic criticism.
Dimitar Dimov is author of the novels Poruchik Bents [Lieutenant Bents] (1938), Roman bez zaglavie [Untitled Novel] (unfinished, published in 1967 in the journal Plamak), Osadeni dushi [Doomed Souls] (1945), Tyutyun [Tobacco] (1951/1954/1955), of short stories, travelogues and plays (Zheni s minalo [Women with a Past], 1959; Vinovniyat [The Guilty One], 1961; Pochivka v Arko Iris [Vacation in Arco Iris], 1964).
The story involving Dimitar Dimov’s Tobacco is among the most illustrative examples of the cultural climate in Bulgaria during the communist period (the writer was forced to rework the text so as to meet the requirements of the political regime). It was only in 1992 that the novel was published in its original form – without the scenes and characters added under the pressure exercised by dogmatic criticism.
