Dimitré Dinev

Dimitré Dinev (Bulgarian: Димитър Динев) (born 1968 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-born Austrian writer.

At this time he migrated to Austria, where he began his new life in Traiskirchen; a city just south of Vienna that served as a registration point for many immigrants to the country.

Most of his literary works are short stories, some of which are published in books like "Ein Licht über dem Kopf" (A Light Over the Head)[6] and some in newspapers or magazines.

Both families are (mostly) from a little town in Bulgaria and while the various family members try to live their lives, their stories cover much the same ground over three generations, with almost no moments of face-to-face encounters, maybe two in the entire book; for example when Iskren and Svetljo bump into each other at the central cemetery in Vienna after escaping from Bulgaria, where the "Engel der Flüchtlinge" (angel of refugees) is waiting for them… The novel was critically acclaimed.

In 2011, his screenplay "Spanien" (Spain) was adapted as a motion picture directed by Anja Salomonowitz starring Tatjana Alexander, Gregoire Colin, Lukas Miko and Cornelius Obanya.

According to an article in the German newspaper Die Welt, he has a special talent for connecting the most different emotions and life stories.